In a Museum II
Such a dream is Time that the coo of this ancient birdHas perished not, but is blent, or will be blendingMid visionless wilds of space with the voice that I heard,In the full-fugued song of the universe unending.
Words in this poem
- blent p. p.
- Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.
- blending n.
- The act of mingling.
- visionless a.
- Destitute of vision; sightless.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
In a Museum II is in the public domain. This text is taken from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, Project Gutenberg ebook #3255; 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 Hardy, In a Museum II, in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #3255, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hardy-moments-of-vision/in-a-museum-ii.html, id L24105.
Form and metre
In a Museum II is 4 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABAB. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic trimeter.
See other poems in iambic trimeter.
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 ABAB birdA · blendingB · heardA · unendingB
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 trimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Such a dream is Time that the coo of this ancient bird | 13 | ··········/˘· |
| Has perished not, but is blent, or will be blending | 12 | ·/˘·······/˘ |
| Mid visionless wilds of space with the voice that I heard, | 13 | ·/˘˘········· |
| In the full-fugued song of the universe unending. | 13 | ·······/˘·˘/˘ |
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