To D. Alonso De Avalo, Marquis Del Vasto XXII
As, love, the lily and purpureal roseShow their sweet colours on thy chaste warm cheek,Thy radiant looks, angelically meek,Serene the tempest to divine repose,And as thy hair, which for its birthright choseThe opal's dye, upon the whitest neckWaved by the winds of heaven without a check,In exquisite disorder falls and flows;Gather the rich fruit of thy mirthful spring,Ere angry Time around thy temples shedThe snows of hasting age; his icy wingWill wither the fresh rose, however red;And changing not his custom, quickly changeThe glory of all objects in his range.
Words in this poem
- purpureal a.
- Of a purple color; purple.
- angry a.
- Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [See Anger.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
To D. Alonso De Avalo, Marquis Del Vasto XXII 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, To D. Alonso De Avalo, Marquis Del Vasto XXII, in The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega (1823), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #49410, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/garcilaso-works/to-d-alonso-de-avalo-marquis-del-vasto-xxii.html, id L18724.
Form and metre
To D. Alonso De Avalo, Marquis Del Vasto XXII is 14 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABBAACCADEDEFF. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 87%). 91% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 10.1 syllables. 43% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic 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 ABBAACCADEDEFF roseA · cheekB · meekB · reposeA · choseA · neckC · checkC · flowsA · springD · shedE · wingD · redE · changeF · rangeF
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 iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| As, love, the lily and purpureal rose | 11 | ···/˘·˘/˘˘· |
| Show their sweet colours on thy chaste warm cheek, | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| Thy radiant looks, angelically meek, | 10 | ·/˘˘·˘/˘˘· |
| Serene the tempest to divine repose, | 10 | ˘/·/˘·˘/˘/ |
| And as thy hair, which for its birthright chose | 10 | ·······/·· |
| The opal's dye, upon the whitest neck | 10 | ·/˘····/˘· |
| Waved by the winds of heaven without a check, | 10 | ·····/···· |
| In exquisite disorder falls and flows; | 10 | ·/˘˘˘/˘··· |
| Gather the rich fruit of thy mirthful spring, | 10 | /˘·····/˘· |
| Ere angry Time around thy temples shed | 10 | ·/˘····/˘· |
| The snows of hasting age; his icy wing | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| Will wither the fresh rose, however red; | 10 | ·/˘····/˘· |
| And changing not his custom, quickly change | 10 | ·/˘··/˘/˘· |
| The glory of all objects in his range. | 10 | ·/˘··/˘··· |
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