Grace Hazard Conkling's Wilderness Songs
Walter De La Mare'sThe Listeners and Other PoemsPeacock Pie. Ill'd by W. H. RobinsonMotley and Other PoemsCollected Poems 1901-1918. 2 Vols.
Robert Frost'sNorth of BostonMountain Interval. New Edition, with PortraitA Boy's Will
Words in this poem
- walter v. i.
- To roll or wallow; to welter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [See Welter.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Grace Hazard Conkling's Wilderness Songs is in the public domain. This text is taken from Mountain Interval, Project Gutenberg ebook #29345; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Robert Frost, Grace Hazard Conkling's Wilderness Songs, in Mountain Interval (1916), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #29345, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/frost-mountain-interval/grace-hazard-conkling-s-wilderness-songs.html, id L02670.
Form and metre
Grace Hazard Conkling's Wilderness Songs is 9 lines in 2 stanzas. 87% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.6 syllables. 5 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 89% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Walter De La Mare's | 5 | /˘··· |
| The Listeners and Other Poems | 9 | ·/˘˘·/˘/˘ |
| Peacock Pie. Ill'd by W. H. Robinson | 11 | /····/˘·/˘˘ |
| Motley and Other Poems | 7 | /˘·/˘/˘ |
| Collected Poems 1901-1918. 2 Vols. | 6 | ˘/˘/˘· |
| Robert Frost's | 3 | /˘· |
| North of Boston | 4 | ··/˘ |
| Mountain Interval. New Edition, with Portrait | 11 | /˘/˘·˘/˘·/˘ |
| A Boy's Will | 3 | ··· |
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