Part VII
"He bids thee come without delayWith all thy numerous array.
And he will meet thee on the wayWith all his numerous array."
"O leave the lily on its stem;O leave the rose upon the spray;O leave the elder-bloom, fair maids!And listen to my lay.
A cypress and a myrtle boughThis morn around my harp you twined,Because it fashion'd mournfullyIts murmurs in the wind.
And now a tale of love and woe,A woeful tale of love I sing;Hark, gentle maidens! hark, it sighsAnd trembles on the string."
"O struggling with the darkness all the night,And visited all night by troops of stars:"
p. 134. A Day-Dream. "There cannot be any doubt, I think, that the'Asra' of this poem is Miss Sarah Hutchinson; 'Mary,' her sister (Mrs.Wordsworth); 'our sister and our friend,' Dorothy and William Wordsworth."
"More than the Protestant milk all newly lapt,Impearling a tame wild-cat's whiskered jaws,"
"Where Toil shall wed young Health, that charming Lass!And use his sleek cows for a looking-glass."
Words in this poem
- morn n.
- The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. [OE. morwen, morgen, AS. morgen; akin to D. morgen, OS. morgan, G. morgen, Icel. morginn, morgunn, Sw. morgon, Dan. morgen, Goth. maúrgins. Cf. Morrow, Morning.]
- whiskered a.
- Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers.
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- lass n.
- A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart. [OE. lasse; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. llodes girl, fem. of llawd lad. (Lad a youth.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Part VII is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems of Coleridge, Project Gutenberg ebook #8208; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Part VII, in Poems of Coleridge (1796–1817), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #8208, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/coleridge-poems/part-vii-2.html, id L00395.
Form and metre
Part VII is 25 lines in 9 stanzas. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 81%). 95% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 9.2 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 24% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 AA delayA · arrayA
- 2 AA wayA · arrayA
- 3 -A-A stem · sprayA · maids · layA
- 4 -A-A bough · twinedA · mournfully · windA
- 5 -A-A woe · singA · sighs · stringA
- 9 AA lassA · glassA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| "He bids thee come without delay | 8 | ······˘/ |
| With all thy numerous array. | 8 | ···/˘˘˘/ |
| And he will meet thee on the way | 8 | ········ |
| With all his numerous array." | 8 | ···/˘˘˘/ |
| "O leave the lily on its stem; | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| O leave the rose upon the spray; | 8 | ········ |
| O leave the elder-bloom, fair maids! | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| And listen to my lay. | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| A cypress and a myrtle bough | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| This morn around my harp you twined, | 9 | ········˘ |
| Because it fashion'd mournfully | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Its murmurs in the wind. | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| And now a tale of love and woe, | 8 | ········ |
| A woeful tale of love I sing; | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Hark, gentle maidens! hark, it sighs | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| And trembles on the string." | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| "O struggling with the darkness all the night, | 10 | ·/˘··/˘··· |
| And visited all night by troops of stars:" | 10 | ·/˘˘······ |
| p. 134. A Day-Dream. "There cannot be any doubt, I think, that the | 15 | ·····˘/·/˘····· |
| 'Asra' of this poem is Miss Sarah Hutchinson; 'Mary,' her sister (Mrs. | 18 | ····/··/˘/˘/˘·/˘/˘ |
| Wordsworth); 'our sister and our friend,' Dorothy and William Wordsworth." | 15 | /˘//˘·/·/˘·/˘/˘ |
| "More than the Protestant milk all newly lapt, | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| Impearling a tame wild-cat's whiskered jaws," | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| "Where Toil shall wed young Health, that charming Lass! | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| And use his sleek cows for a looking-glass." | 10 | ·······/˘· |
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