Peace
EVENING upon the calm sweet sea,A little wind asleep,Dim sails that drift as tranquillyAs dreams in slumber deep.A seagull on the water’s breastFolds up his wings of white;As peaceful and as much at restAs is my heart to-night.
Words in this poem
- tranquilly adv.
- In a tranquil manner; calmly.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Peace is in the public domain. This text is taken from Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #50591; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Radclyffe Hall, Peace, in Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems (1913), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #50591, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hall-three-counties/peace.html, id L22681.
Form and metre
Peace is 8 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 91%).
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 -A-ABCBC sea · asleepA · tranquilly · deepA · breastB · whiteC · restB · nightC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EVENING upon the calm sweet sea, | 8 | /˘······ |
| A little wind asleep, | 6 | ·/˘·˘/ |
| Dim sails that drift as tranquilly | 8 | ·····/˘˘ |
| As dreams in slumber deep. | 6 | ···/˘· |
| A seagull on the water’s breast | 8 | ·/···/˘· |
| Folds up his wings of white; | 6 | ······ |
| As peaceful and as much at rest | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| As is my heart to-night. | 6 | ······ |
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