Made and Printed in Great Britain
Acknowledgment for the permission to reprint certain poems is due to:Nation, Sphere, Egoist (London); Bookman, Poetry, DoubleDealer (New York, Chicago, New Orleans); Transatlantic, Gargoyle(Paris); The Imagist Anthologies and the Miscellany of AmericanPoetry (1922).
Words in this poem
- reprint v. t.
- To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.
- egoist n.
- One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. [F. égoïste. See Egoism.]
- bookman n.
- A studious man; a scholar.
- orleans n.
- A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel. [So called from the city of Orléans, in France.]
- transatlantic a.
- Lying or being beyond the Atlantic Ocean. [Pref. trans- + Atlantic: cf. F. transatlantique.]
- gargoyle n.
- A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.] [OE. garguilie, gargouille, cf. Sp. gárgola, prob. fr. the same source as F. gorge throat, influenced by L. gargarizare to gargle. See Gorge and cf. Gargle, Garg]
- miscellany a.
- Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Made and Printed in Great Britain is in the public domain. This text is taken from Heliodora, and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #62456; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: H.D., Made and Printed in Great Britain, in Heliodora, and Other Poems (1924), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #62456, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hd-heliodora/made-and-printed-in-great-britain.html, id L24294.
Form and metre
Made and Printed in Great Britain is 5 lines in a single stanza. 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-- to · doubleA · gargoyleA · american · —
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgment for the permission to reprint certain poems is due to: | 19 | ˘/˘˘··˘/˘·˘//˘/˘··· |
| Nation, Sphere, Egoist (London); Bookman, Poetry, Double | 15 | /˘·/˘˘/˘/˘/˘˘/˘ |
| Dealer (New York, Chicago, New Orleans); Transatlantic, Gargoyle | 17 | /˘··˘/··/˘˘·˘/˘/· |
| (Paris); The Imagist Anthologies and the Miscellany of American | 21 | /˘····˘/˘˘··/˘·˘·˘/˘˘ |
| Poetry (1922). | 3 | /˘˘ |
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