Stageland
The customs of this land have allBeen published in a bulky tome.The author is a man they callJerome K. Jerome K. Jerome.So, lest on his preserves I poach,This subject I refuse to broach.
Words in this poem
- poach v. t.
- To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish. Carew. [Cf. OF. pocher to thrust or dig out with the fingers, to bruise (the eyes), F. pouce thumb, L. pollex, and also E. poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and poke to t]
- broach v. t.
- To spit; to pierce as with a spit. [F. brocher, fr. broche. See Broach, n.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Stageland 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, Stageland, in Verse and Worse (1905), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #36702, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/graham-verse-and-worse/stageland.html, id L23320.
Form and metre
Stageland is 6 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABABCC. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 84%).
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
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 ABABCC allA · tomeB · callA · jeromeB · poachC · broachC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The customs of this land have all | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Been published in a bulky tome. | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| The author is a man they call | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Jerome K. Jerome K. Jerome. | 8 | ˘/·˘/·˘/ |
| So, lest on his preserves I poach, | 8 | ····˘/·· |
| This subject I refuse to broach. | 8 | ·/˘·˘/·· |
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