Eclogues
Dum sint volucres, LASSE, Cupidines,Dum cura dulcis, dum lachrymæ leves,Blandæque amatorum querelæ,Silvicolis amor et magistris;Vivent labores, et numeri tui,Dulcesque cantus; nec fuga temporisObliviosi, nec profaniVis rapiet violenta Fati:Sive è supremis axibus ætherisNos triste vulgus despicis, aureâSeu fistulâ doces ElisamElysias resonare sylvas.
About this text
Eclogues is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega, Project Gutenberg ebook #49410, the J. H. Wiffen translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Garcilaso de la Vega, Eclogues, in The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega (1823), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #49410, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/garcilaso-works/eclogues.html, id L18692.
Form and metre
Eclogues is 12 lines in a single stanza. The metre is trochaic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 94% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 8.8 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 42% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in trochaic 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 ---A-A--A--- cupidines · leves · querelæ · magistrisA · tui · temporisA · profani · fati · ætherisA · aureâ · elisam · sylvas
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 pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Dum sint volucres, LASSE, Cupidines, | 8 | ········ |
| Dum cura dulcis, dum lachrymæ leves, | 9 | ········· |
| Blandæque amatorum querelæ, | 8 | ········ |
| Silvicolis amor et magistris; | 10 | ····/˘···· |
| Vivent labores, et numeri tui, | 9 | ··/˘····· |
| Dulcesque cantus; nec fuga temporis | 10 | ··/˘·/˘··· |
| Obliviosi, nec profani | 8 | ········ |
| Vis rapiet violenta Fati: | 8 | ········ |
| Sive è supremis axibus ætheris | 9 | ········· |
| Nos triste vulgus despicis, aureâ | 9 | ·······/˘ |
| Seu fistulâ doces Elisam | 8 | ········ |
| Elysias resonare sylvas. | 9 | ˘/˘˘···/˘ |
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