Amour 8
Vnto the World, to Learning, and to Heauen,Three nines there are, to euerie one a nine;One number of the earth, the other both diuine,One wonder woman now makes three od numbers euen.Nine orders, first, of Angels be in heauen;Nine Muses doe with learning still frequent:These with the Gods are euer resident.Nine worthy men vnto the world were giuen.My Worthie one to these nine Worthies addeth,And my faire Muse one Muse vnto the nine;And my good Angell, in my soule diuine,With one more order these nine orders gladdeth.My Muse, my Worthy, and my Angell, then,Makes euery one of these three nines a ten.
About this text
Amour 8 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 8, in Minor Poems (1594–1619), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #17873, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/drayton-minor-poems/amour-8.html, id L20549.
Form and metre
Amour 8 is 14 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%).
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 ABB-A---CBBCDD heauenA · nineB · diuineB · euen · heauenA · frequent · resident · giuen · addethC · nineB · diuineB · gladdethC · thenD · tenD
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vnto the World, to Learning, and to Heauen, | 9 | ····/˘··· |
| Three nines there are, to euerie one a nine; | 10 | ·········· |
| One number of the earth, the other both diuine, | 11 | ·/˘····/˘·· |
| One wonder woman now makes three od numbers euen. | 12 | ·/˘/˘····/˘· |
| Nine orders, first, of Angels be in heauen; | 10 | ·/˘··/˘··· |
| Nine Muses doe with learning still frequent: | 10 | ·/˘··/˘·/· |
| These with the Gods are euer resident. | 9 | ······/˘˘ |
| Nine worthy men vnto the world were giuen. | 9 | ·/˘······ |
| My Worthie one to these nine Worthies addeth, | 11 | ·······/˘·· |
| And my faire Muse one Muse vnto the nine; | 9 | ········· |
| And my good Angell, in my soule diuine, | 9 | ···/˘···· |
| With one more order these nine orders gladdeth. | 11 | ···/˘··/˘/˘ |
| My Muse, my Worthy, and my Angell, then, | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| Makes euery one of these three nines a ten. | 10 | ·········· |
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