An Acclamation

John Davies (1569–1626) · 1596–1599

iambic pentameter · 4 lines · from The Complete Poems, Volume I

Reason II--Drawn from the Motion of the SouleThe Soul compared to a Riuer

Reason IV--From the Feare of Death in theWicked Soules

About this text

An Acclamation is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2., Project Gutenberg ebook #44977; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.

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Form and metre

An Acclamation is 4 lines in 2 stanzas of 2 lines each. The lines average 7.8 syllables.

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.

LineSyl.Stress
Reason II--Drawn from the Motion of the Soule11/˘····/˘···
The Soul compared to a Riuer7··˘/···
Reason IV--From the Feare of Death in the10/˘········
Wicked Soules3/˘·

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