Additamenta Superiori Cantico
Ingenij amplitudinemJam satis ostendisti,Et eloquentiæ fructusAbundè protulisti:Sed parce, tibi, parcito,Ne omne absumatur,Ne tandem tibi aridoNil suavi relinquatur.
Jam satis oppugnasti,O Polyphemi proles!Et tanquam taurus gregisNos oppugnare soles.Sed parce, tandem, parcito,Tuis laudatus eris,Et nunc inultus tanquam stultusA nobis dimitteris.
Words in this poem
- tandem adv.
- One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast. [L. tandem at length (of time only), punningly taken as meaning, lengthwise.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Additamenta Superiori Cantico is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich 4th edition, Project Gutenberg ebook #65375; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Richard Corbet, Additamenta Superiori Cantico, in Poems (1647), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #65375, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/corbet-poems/additamenta-superiori-cantico.html, id L08885.
Form and metre
Additamenta Superiori Cantico is 16 lines in 2 stanzas of 8 lines each. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 94%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.9 syllables. 31% 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 -A-A-B-B amplitudinem · ostendistiA · fructus · protulistiA · parcito · absumaturB · arido · relinquaturB
- 2 -ABA-B-B oppugnasti · prolesA · gregisB · solesA · parcito · erisB · stultus · dimitterisB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ingenij amplitudinem | 8 | ········ |
| Jam satis ostendisti, | 7 | ······· |
| Et eloquentiæ fructus | 7 | ······· |
| Abundè protulisti: | 6 | ······ |
| Sed parce, tibi, parcito, | 7 | ··/···· |
| Ne omne absumatur, | 6 | ······ |
| Ne tandem tibi arido | 8 | ·/˘/···· |
| Nil suavi relinquatur. | 7 | ······· |
| Jam satis oppugnasti, | 7 | ······· |
| O Polyphemi proles! | 6 | ······ |
| Et tanquam taurus gregis | 7 | ···/˘·· |
| Nos oppugnare soles. | 5 | ····· |
| Sed parce, tandem, parcito, | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Tuis laudatus eris, | 6 | ······ |
| Et nunc inultus tanquam stultus | 9 | ········· |
| A nobis dimitteris. | 7 | ·/˘···· |
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