From the Spanish of Garcilaso De La Vega
Divine Eliza!--since the sapphire skyThou measur’st now on angel wings, and feetSandall’d with immortality--oh, whyOf me forgetful? Wherefore not entreatTo hurry on the time, when I shall seeThe veil of mortal being rent in twain,And smile that I am free?
In the third circle of that happy land,Shall we not seek together, hand in hand,Another lovelier landscape, a new plain,Other romantic streams and mountains blue,And other vales, and a new shady shore,When I may rest, and ever in my viewKeep thee, without the terror and surpriseOf being sunder’d more!
Words in this poem
- forgetful a.
- Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
- wherefore adv.
- For which reason; so; -- used relatively. [Where + for.]
- entreat v. t.
- To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. [OE. entreten to treat, request, OF. entraiter to treat of; pref. en- (L. in) + traitier to treat. See Treat.]
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- twain a.
- Two;- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. [OE. twein, tweien, tweyne, AS. twegen, masc. See Two.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
From the Spanish of Garcilaso De La Vega is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Felicia Hemans, Project Gutenberg ebook #66785; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
From the Spanish of Garcilaso De La Vega is 15 lines in 2 stanzas. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 91%).
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
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 ABABC-C skyA · feetB · whyA · entreatB · seeC · twain · freeC
- 2 AA-BCB-C landA · handA · plain · blueB · shoreC · viewB · surprise · moreC
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 pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Divine Eliza!--since the sapphire sky | 10 | ˘/˘/˘··/˘· |
| Thou measur’st now on angel wings, and feet | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Sandall’d with immortality--oh, why | 10 | ····˘/˘˘·· |
| Of me forgetful? Wherefore not entreat | 10 | ··˘/˘/˘·˘/ |
| To hurry on the time, when I shall see | 10 | ·/˘······· |
| The veil of mortal being rent in twain, | 10 | ···/˘/˘··· |
| And smile that I am free? | 6 | ······ |
| In the third circle of that happy land, | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| Shall we not seek together, hand in hand, | 10 | ····˘/˘··· |
| Another lovelier landscape, a new plain, | 11 | ˘/˘···/···· |
| Other romantic streams and mountains blue, | 10 | /˘˘/˘··/˘· |
| And other vales, and a new shady shore, | 10 | ·/˘····/˘· |
| When I may rest, and ever in my view | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Keep thee, without the terror and surprise | 10 | ·····/˘·˘/ |
| Of being sunder’d more! | 6 | ·/˘··· |
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