Evani Evans, Cereticensis
Si quid mea carmina possunt,Aonio statuam sublimeis vertice Bardos;Bardos Pieridum cultores, atque canentisPhoebi delicias, quibus est data cura perennisDicere nobilium clarissima facta virorum,Aureaque excelsam famam super astra locare.
Words in this poem
- quid n.
- A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco. [See Cud.]
- super n.
- A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2. [Theatrical Cant]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Evani Evans, Cereticensis is in the public domain. This text is taken from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards, Project Gutenberg ebook #32767; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Evan Evans, Evani Evans, Cereticensis, in Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards (1764), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #32767, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/evans-welsh/evani-evans-cereticensis.html, id L11873.
Form and metre
Evani Evans, Cereticensis is 6 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 12.2 syllables. 1 line ends 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-- possunt · bardos · canentisA · perennisA · virorum · locare
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si quid mea carmina possunt, | 8 | ········ |
| Aonio statuam sublimeis vertice Bardos; | 11 | ·········/˘ |
| Bardos Pieridum cultores, atque canentis | 11 | /˘········· |
| Phoebi delicias, quibus est data cura perennis | 16 | ··˘/˘··˘//˘····· |
| Dicere nobilium clarissima facta virorum, | 14 | ·············· |
| Aureaque excelsam famam super astra locare. | 13 | ·······/˘/˘·· |
The reader shows the same poem with its rhymes coloured and a stress row above each line, the notes beside their stanzas, and any word's definition on a tap; the analysis page takes the whole book apart. How every part of this site was made.