The Hobby Horse
The late MATTHEW ARNOLD.The late ARTHUR BURGESS.SIR F. LEIGHTON, Bart., P.R.A.C. HUBERT H. PARRY, Mus. Doc.The late W. BELL SCOTT.The late JAMES SMETHAM.The late J. ADDINGTON SYMONDS.
Words in this poem
- burgess n.
- An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone. [OE. burgeis, OF. burgeis, fr. burcfortified town, town, F. bourg village, fr. LL. burgus fort, city; from the German; cf. MHG. burc, G. burg. See 1st Borough, a]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Hobby Horse 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, The Hobby Horse, in Poems (1870), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #78947, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hake-poems/the-hobby-horse.html, id L23622.
Form and metre
The Hobby Horse is 7 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 74%).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The late MATTHEW ARNOLD. | 6 | ··/˘/˘ |
| The late ARTHUR BURGESS. | 6 | ··/˘/˘ |
| SIR F. LEIGHTON, Bart., P.R.A. | 8 | ··/˘···· |
| C. HUBERT H. PARRY, Mus. Doc. | 8 | ·/˘·/˘·· |
| The late W. BELL SCOTT. | 7 | ··/˘˘·· |
| The late JAMES SMETHAM. | 5 | ····· |
| The late J. ADDINGTON SYMONDS. | 8 | ···/˘˘/˘ |
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