Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1907
Henry Frowde, M.A.Publisher to the University of OxfordLondon, Edinburgh, New Yorkand Toronto
Words in this poem
- publisher n.
- One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.
- university n.
- The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. [OE. universite, L. universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. universus all to]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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Form and metre
Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1907 is 4 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 7.0 syllables. 2 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Henry Frowde, M.A. | 5 | /˘··· |
| Publisher to the University of Oxford | 11 | /˘···˘/˘·/˘ |
| London, Edinburgh, New York | 8 | /˘/˘˘˘·· |
| and Toronto | 4 | ·˘/˘ |
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