Amour 13
Cleere Ankor, on whose siluer-sanded shoreMy soule-shrinde Saint, my faire Idea, lyes;O blessed Brooke! whose milk-white Swans adoreThe christall streame refined by her eyes:Where sweet Myrh-breathing Zephyre in the springGently distils his Nectar-dropping showers;Where Nightingales in Arden sit and singAmongst those dainty dew-empearled flowers.Say thus, fayre Brooke, when thou shall see thy Queene:Loe! heere thy Shepheard spent his wandring yeeres,And in these shades (deer Nimphe) he oft hath been,And heere to thee he sacrifiz'd his teares.Fayre Arden, thou my Tempe art alone,And thou, sweet Ankor, art my Helicon.
Words in this poem
- adore v. t.
- To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French pr]
- amongst prep.
- Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. [OE. amongist, amonges, amonge, among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the ending -st see Amidst. See Mingle.]
- dainty n.
- Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. [OE. deinie, dainte, deintie, deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. dignitas, fr. dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Dignity.]
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- helicon n.
- A mountain in Boeotia, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Amour 13 is in the public domain. This text is taken from Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Project Gutenberg ebook #17873; 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
Amour 13 is 14 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 87%).
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 ABABCDCD------ shoreA · lyesB · adoreA · eyesB · springC · showersD · singC · flowersD · queene · yeeres · been · teares · alone · helicon
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.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Cleere Ankor, on whose siluer-sanded shore | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| My soule-shrinde Saint, my faire Idea, lyes; | 10 | ······˘/˘· |
| O blessed Brooke! whose milk-white Swans adore | 10 | ··˘·····˘/ |
| The christall streame refined by her eyes: | 10 | ·/˘·˘/˘··· |
| Where sweet Myrh-breathing Zephyre in the spring | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| Gently distils his Nectar-dropping showers; | 11 | /˘˘/·/˘/˘/˘ |
| Where Nightingales in Arden sit and sing | 10 | ·/˘˘·/˘··· |
| Amongst those dainty dew-empearled flowers. | 10 | ···/˘···/˘ |
| Say thus, fayre Brooke, when thou shall see thy Queene: | 10 | ·········· |
| Loe! heere thy Shepheard spent his wandring yeeres, | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| And in these shades (deer Nimphe) he oft hath been, | 10 | ·········· |
| And heere to thee he sacrifiz'd his teares. | 10 | ·········· |
| Fayre Arden, thou my Tempe art alone, | 10 | ·/˘··/˘·˘/ |
| And thou, sweet Ankor, art my Helicon. | 10 | ·······/˘· |
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