In Preparation
III. THE DEFEAT OF YOUTH, AND OTHER POEMS [Illustration: leaf] BY
IV. SONGS FOR SALE [Illustration: leaf] AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE,
V. CLOWNS’ HOUSES [Illustration: leaf] BY EDITH SITWELL, EDITOR OF“WHEELS.”
IN ALL LANGUAGES [Illustration: leaf] EDITED BY REGINALD HEWITT,M. A. [Illustration: leaf] MEDIUM 16MO, IN DOLPHIN OLD
Words in this poem
- defeat v. t.
- To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [From F. défait, OF. desfait, p. p. ofe défaire, OF. desfaire, to undo; L. dis- + facere to do. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Disfashion.]
- anthology n.
- A discourses on flowers.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
In Preparation is in the public domain. This text is taken from Sonnets and Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #56244; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Eleanor Farjeon, In Preparation, in Sonnets and Poems (1918), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #56244, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/farjeon-sonnets-poems/in-preparation.html, id L21995.
Form and metre
In Preparation is 6 lines in 4 stanzas. The metre is trochaic octameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 73%).
See other poems in trochaic octameter.
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. Read against trochaic octameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| III. THE DEFEAT OF YOUTH, AND OTHER POEMS [Illustration: leaf] BY | 17 | ··˘/···/˘/˘·˘/˘·· |
| IV. SONGS FOR SALE [Illustration: leaf] AN ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE, | 15 | ·····˘/˘··˘/˘·· |
| V. CLOWNS’ HOUSES [Illustration: leaf] BY EDITH SITWELL, EDITOR OF | 17 | ··/˘·˘/˘··/˘··/˘· |
| “WHEELS.” | 1 | · |
| IN ALL LANGUAGES [Illustration: leaf] EDITED BY REGINALD HEWITT, | 16 | ··/˘·˘/˘·/˘·/˘/˘ |
| M. A. [Illustration: leaf] MEDIUM 16MO, IN DOLPHIN OLD | 14 | ···˘/˘·/˘··/˘· |
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