Rose-Rent

Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) · 1915

ABAB · 4 lines · from A Chant of Love for England, and Other Poems

Life! lordly giver and gay!I, for this manor of Time,Lightly and lovingly payRent with the rose of a rhyme.

Words in this poem

giver n.
One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
lovingly adv.
With love; affectionately.

Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.

About this text

Rose-Rent 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, Rose-Rent, 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/rose-rent.html, id L22084.

Form and metre

Rose-Rent is 4 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABAB.

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. 1 ABAB gayA · timeB · payA · rhymeB
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.

LineSyl.Stress
Life! lordly giver and gay!7·/˘/˘··
I, for this manor of Time,7···/˘··
Lightly and lovingly pay7/˘·/˘˘·
Rent with the rose of a rhyme.7·······

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