Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony
SHOW me again the timeWhen in the Junetide’s primeWe flew by meads and mountains northerly!—Yea, to such freshness, fairness, fulness, fineness, freeness,Love lures life on.
Show me again the dayWhen from the sandy bayWe looked together upon the pestered sea!—Yea, to such surging, swaying, sighing, swelling, shrinking,Love lures life on.
Show me again the hourWhen by the pinnacled towerWe eyed each other and feared futurity!—Yea, to such bodings, broodings, beatings, blanchings, blessings,Love lures life on.
Show me again just this:The moment of that kissAway from the prancing folk, by the strawberry-tree!—Yea, to such rashness, ratheness, rareness, ripeness, richness,Love lures life on.
Words in this poem
- northerly a.
- Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.
- freeness n.
- The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.
- futurity n.
- State of being that is yet to come; future state.
- folk n.
- In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.]
- rashness n.
- The quality of state of being rash.
- rareness n.
- The state or quality of being rare.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony 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, Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony, in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #3255, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hardy-moments-of-vision/lines-to-a-movement-in-mozart-s-e-flat-symphony.html, id L24132.
Form and metre
Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony is 20 lines in 4 stanzas of 5 lines each. 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 AA--- timeA · primeA · northerly · freeness · on
- 2 AA--- dayA · bayA · sea · shrinking · on
- 3 AA--- hourA · towerA · futurity · blessings · on
- 4 AA-A- thisA · kissA · tree · richnessA · on
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SHOW me again the time | 6 | ··˘/·· |
| When in the Junetide’s prime | 7 | ······· |
| We flew by meads and mountains northerly!— | 9 | ·····/˘/˘ |
| Yea, to such freshness, fairness, fulness, fineness, freeness, | 13 | ···/˘/˘/˘/˘/˘ |
| Love lures life on. | 4 | ···· |
| Show me again the day | 6 | ··˘/·· |
| When from the sandy bay | 6 | ···/˘· |
| We looked together upon the pestered sea!— | 11 | ··˘/˘···/˘· |
| Yea, to such surging, swaying, sighing, swelling, shrinking, | 13 | ···/˘/˘/˘/˘/˘ |
| Love lures life on. | 4 | ···· |
| Show me again the hour | 7 | ··˘/·/˘ |
| When by the pinnacled tower | 8 | ···/˘˘/˘ |
| We eyed each other and feared futurity!— | 11 | ···/˘··˘/˘˘ |
| Yea, to such bodings, broodings, beatings, blanchings, blessings, | 13 | ·····/˘/˘··/˘ |
| Love lures life on. | 4 | ···· |
| Show me again just this: | 6 | ··˘/·· |
| The moment of that kiss | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Away from the prancing folk, by the strawberry-tree!— | 13 | ˘/··/˘···/·˘· |
| Yea, to such rashness, ratheness, rareness, ripeness, richness, | 14 | ···/˘···/˘/˘/˘ |
| Love lures life on. | 4 | ···· |
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