New York Henry Holt and Company
The author's thanks for permission to reprint certain of the poemsincluded in this collection are due to the Editors of the SaturdayReview, the Thrush, the Pall Mall Magazine, the Odd Volume, theLady's Realm, the English Review, the Westminster Gazette, theCommonwealth, and the Nation.
Words in this poem
- reprint v. t.
- To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.
- saturday n.
- The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday. [OE. Saterday, AS. Sæterdæg, Sæterndæg, Sæternesdæg, literally, Saturn's day, fr. L. Saturnus Saturn + AS. dæg day; cf. L. dies Saturni.]
- mall n.
- A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. [OE. malle, F. mail, L. malleus. Cf. Malleus.]
- gazette n.
- A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices. [F. gazette, It. gazzetta, perh. from gazetta a Venetian coin (see Gazet), said to have been the price of the first newspaper published at Venice; or perh. dim. ]
- commonwealth n.
- A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. [Common + wealth well-being.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
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Form and metre
New York Henry Holt and Company is 5 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 14.4 syllables. 3 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
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 --AA- poems · saturday · theA · theA · nation
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The author's thanks for permission to reprint certain of the poems | 17 | ·/˘··˘/˘·˘//˘··/˘ |
| included in this collection are due to the Editors of the Saturday | 18 | ˘/˘··˘/˘····/˘··/˘ |
| Review, the Thrush, the Pall Mall Magazine, the Odd Volume, the | 15 | ·/·····/˘···/˘· |
| Lady's Realm, the English Review, the Westminster Gazette, the | 15 | /˘··/˘·/··/˘˘/· |
| Commonwealth, and the Nation. | 7 | /˘···/˘ |
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