Books of Travel
FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA. By SAINTHILL EARDLEY-WILMOT, C.I.E.,lately Inspector-General of Forests to the Indian Government;Commissioner under the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act.Fully Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
IN FORBIDDEN SEAS: Recollections of Sea-Otter Hunting in the Kurils. ByH. J. SNOW, F.R.G.S. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
SPORT AND NATURE IN SPAIN. By ABEL CHAPMAN and WALTER J. BUCK, BritishVice-Consul at Jerez. With 200 Illustrations by the AUTHORS, E.CALDWELL, and others, Sketch Maps, and Photographs.
Words in this poem
- demy n.
- A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper. [See Demi-.]
- 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
Books of Travel is in the public domain. This text is taken from Verse and Worse, Project Gutenberg ebook #36702; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Harry Graham, Books of Travel, in Verse and Worse (1905), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #36702, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/graham-verse-and-worse/books-of-travel.html, id L23362.
Form and metre
Books of Travel is 9 lines in 3 stanzas. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter.
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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. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA. By SAINTHILL EARDLEY-WILMOT, C.I.E., | 18 | /˘····/˘···/˘/˘··· |
| lately Inspector-General of Forests to the Indian Government; | 16 | /˘˘/˘/˘·/˘··/˘/˘ |
| Commissioner under the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act. | 16 | ˘/˘···˘/˘··˘/˘·· |
| Fully Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net. | 12 | /˘/˘·˘˘/···· |
| IN FORBIDDEN SEAS: Recollections of Sea-Otter Hunting in the Kurils. By | 18 | ·/˘··˘/˘··/˘/˘··˘· |
| H. J. SNOW, F.R.G.S. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net. | 17 | ·······/˘·˘˘/···· |
| SPORT AND NATURE IN SPAIN. By ABEL CHAPMAN and WALTER J. BUCK, British | 18 | ··/˘···/˘/˘·/˘··/˘ |
| Vice-Consul at Jerez. With 200 Illustrations by the AUTHORS, E. | 16 | ·/˘·˘/··˘/˘··/˘· |
| CALDWELL, and others, Sketch Maps, and Photographs. | 11 | /˘·/˘···/˘· |
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