Emelie
O chaste goddesse of the wodes grene,I am (thou wost) yet of thy compagnie,A mayde, and love hunting and venerie,And for to walken in the wodes wilde.
Words in this poem
- wost
- 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Emelie is in the public domain. This text is taken from A chant of love for England, and other poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #71425; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Helen Gray Cone, Emelie, in A Chant of Love for England, and Other Poems (1915), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #71425, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/cone-chant-for-england/emelie.html, id L22071.
Form and metre
Emelie is 4 lines in a single stanza.
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.
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. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| O chaste goddesse of the wodes grene, | 8 | ········ |
| I am (thou wost) yet of thy compagnie, | 10 | ·······/˘˘ |
| A mayde, and love hunting and venerie, | 10 | ····/˘···· |
| And for to walken in the wodes wilde. | 9 | ···/˘···· |
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