Bárometz, Béllis, Byssus

Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) · 1789

iambic pentameter · 31 lines · from The Botanic Garden, Part II: The Loves of the Plants

CáctusCaléndulaCallítricheCánnaCánnabisCápri-fícusCarlínaCaryophýllusCáffiaCéreusChondríllaChundaCinchónaCircæaCistusCócculusCólchicumCollinsóniaConsérvaCupréssusCurcúmaCuscútaCýclamenCypérus

DiánthusDictámnusDigitálisDodecátheonDrábaDróseraDýpsacus

About this text

Bárometz, Béllis, Byssus is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Botanic Garden. Part 2, Containing the Loves of the Plants. A Poem. With Philosophical Notes., Project Gutenberg ebook #10671; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.

Cite as: Erasmus Darwin, Bárometz, Béllis, Byssus, in The Botanic Garden, Part II: The Loves of the Plants (1789), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #10671, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/darwin-loves-of-plants/b-rometz-b-llis-byssus.html, id L23547.

Form and metre

Bárometz, Béllis, Byssus is 31 lines in 2 stanzas. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.

See other poems in iambic pentameter.

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 -----A-A------BB---B---- cáctus · caléndula · callítriche · cánna · cánnabis · fícusA · carlína · caryophýllusA · cáffia · céreus · chondrílla · chunda · cinchóna · circæa · cistusB · cócculusB · cólchicum · collinsónia · consérva · cupréssusB · curcúma · cuscúta · cýclamen · cypérus
  2. 2 AA----- diánthusA · dictámnusA · digitális · dodecátheon · drába · drósera · dýpsacus
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 pentameter. How this is done.

LineSyl.Stress
Cáctus2··
Caléndula4····
Callítriche3···
Cánna2··
Cánnabis3···
Cápri-fícus4····
Carlína3···
Caryophýllus4····
Cáffia2··
Céreus2··
Chondrílla3···
Chunda2··
Cinchóna3···
Circæa2/˘
Cistus2··
Cócculus3···
Cólchicum3···
Collinsónia4····
Consérva3···
Cupréssus3···
Curcúma3···
Cuscúta3···
Cýclamen3···
Cypérus2/˘
Diánthus2··
Dictámnus3···
Digitális4····
Dodecátheon4····
Drába2··
Drósera3···
Dýpsacus3···

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