Gale (Norman)
ORCHARD SONGS. Fcap. 8vo. With Title-page and Cover Design by J.ILLINGWORTH KAY. 5s. net.
Also a Special Edition limited in number on hand-made paper bound inEnglish vellum. £1, 1s. net.
About this text
Gale (Norman) is in the public domain. This text is taken from The poems of Thomas Gordon Hake, Project Gutenberg ebook #78947; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Thomas Gordon Hake, Gale (Norman), in Poems (1870), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #78947, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hake-poems/gale-norman.html, id L23621.
Form and metre
Gale (Norman) is 4 lines in 2 stanzas of 2 lines each. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ORCHARD SONGS. Fcap. 8vo. With Title-page and Cover Design by J. | 16 | /˘····/˘··/˘˘/·· |
| ILLINGWORTH KAY. 5s. net. | 6 | /˘···· |
| Also a Special Edition limited in number on hand-made paper bound in | 20 | /˘·/˘˘/˘/˘·/˘···/˘·· |
| English vellum. £1, 1s. net. | 6 | /˘/˘·· |
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