Sitalkas
Thou art come at lengthmore beautifulthan any cool godin a chamber underLycia’s far coast,than any high godwho touches us nothere in the seeded grass:aye, than Argestesscattering the broken leaves.
About this text
Sitalkas 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., Sitalkas, in Heliodora, and Other Poems (1924), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #62456, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hd-heliodora/sitalkas.html, id L24320.
Form and metre
Sitalkas is 10 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic trimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 83%).
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 --A--A---- length · beautiful · godA · under · coast · godA · not · grass · argestes · leaves
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thou art come at length | 5 | ····· |
| more beautiful | 4 | ·/˘˘ |
| than any cool god | 5 | ·/˘·· |
| in a chamber under | 6 | ··/˘·· |
| Lycia’s far coast, | 4 | ···· |
| than any high god | 5 | ·/˘·· |
| who touches us not | 5 | ·/˘·· |
| here in the seeded grass: | 6 | ···/˘· |
| aye, than Argestes | 4 | ···· |
| scattering the broken leaves. | 6 | /˘·/˘· |
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