Amour 6
In one whole world is but one Phoenix found,A Phoenix thou, this Phoenix then alone:By thy rare plume thy kind is easly knowne,With heauenly colours dide, with natures wonder cround.Heape thine own vertues, seasoned by their sunne,On heauenly top of thy diuine desire;Then with thy beautie set the same on fire,So by thy death thy life shall be begunne.Thy selfe, thus burned in this sacred flame,With thine owne sweetnes al the heauens perfuming,And stil increasing as thou art consuming,Shalt spring againe from th' ashes of thy fame;And mounting vp shall to the heauens ascend:So maist thou liue, past world, past fame, past end.
Words in this poem
- 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,]
- shalt
- 2d per. sing. of Shall.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Amour 6 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.
Cite as: Michael Drayton, Amour 6, in Minor Poems (1594–1619), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #17873, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/drayton-minor-poems/amour-6.html, id L20547.
Form and metre
Amour 6 is 14 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 89%).
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 A--ABCCBDEEDFF foundA · alone · knowne · croundA · sunneB · desireC · fireC · begunneB · flameD · perfumingE · consumingE · fameD · ascendF · endF
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 |
|---|---|---|
| In one whole world is but one Phoenix found, | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| A Phoenix thou, this Phoenix then alone: | 10 | ·/˘··/˘·˘/ |
| By thy rare plume thy kind is easly knowne, | 10 | ·········· |
| With heauenly colours dide, with natures wonder cround. | 12 | ···/˘··/˘/˘· |
| Heape thine own vertues, seasoned by their sunne, | 10 | ····/˘˘··· |
| On heauenly top of thy diuine desire; | 10 | ·······˘/˘ |
| Then with thy beautie set the same on fire, | 11 | ·········/˘ |
| So by thy death thy life shall be begunne. | 10 | ········˘/ |
| Thy selfe, thus burned in this sacred flame, | 10 | ····˘··/˘· |
| With thine owne sweetnes al the heauens perfuming, | 10 | ·······˘/˘ |
| And stil increasing as thou art consuming, | 11 | ··˘/˘···˘/˘ |
| Shalt spring againe from th' ashes of thy fame; | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| And mounting vp shall to the heauens ascend: | 10 | ·/˘·····˘/ |
| So maist thou liue, past world, past fame, past end. | 10 | ·········· |
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