Burton E. Stevenson
This edition includes the "new" poets such as MASEFIELD, CHESTERTON,FROST, RUPERT BROOKE, DE LA MARE, RALPH HODGSON, etc.
"A collection so complete and distinguished that it is difficult tofind any other approaching it sufficiently for comparison."--NewYork Times Book Review on the first edition.
Cloth, one volume,Cloth, two volumes,Half Morocco, one volume,Half Morocco, two volumes,
Words in this poem
- ralph n.
- A name sometimes given to the raven.
- morocco n.
- A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors. [Named from Morocco, the country. Cf. Morris the dance.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Burton E. Stevenson is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Listeners and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #22569; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Walter de la Mare, Burton E. Stevenson, in The Listeners and Other Poems (1912), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22569, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/de-la-mare-listeners/burton-e-stevenson.html, id L17114.
Form and metre
Burton E. Stevenson is 9 lines in 3 stanzas. 76% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 10.7 syllables. 7 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 22% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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.
- 2 AA- toA · newA · edition
- 3 ABAB volumeA · volumesB · volumeA · volumesB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| This edition includes the "new" poets such as MASEFIELD, CHESTERTON, | 16 | ·˘/˘˘/··/˘··/·/˘ |
| FROST, RUPERT BROOKE, DE LA MARE, RALPH HODGSON, etc. | 13 | ·/˘·····/˘·/˘ |
| "A collection so complete and distinguished that it is difficult to | 17 | ·˘/˘·˘/·˘/˘···/˘· |
| find any other approaching it sufficiently for comparison."--New | 17 | ·/˘/˘˘/˘·˘/˘·˘/˘· |
| York Times Book Review on the first edition. | 11 | ····/···˘/˘ |
| Cloth, one volume, | 4 | ··/˘ |
| Cloth, two volumes, | 4 | ··/˘ |
| Half Morocco, one volume, | 7 | ·˘/˘·/˘ |
| Half Morocco, two volumes, | 7 | ·˘/˘·/˘ |
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