Envoy
And it’s O, for my dear and the charm that stays—Midsummer days! Midsummer days!It’s O, for my Love and the dark that plights—Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights!
Words in this poem
- midsummer n.
- The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. [AS. midsumor.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Envoy is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #1568; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: W. E. Henley, Envoy, in Poems (1898), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #1568, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/henley-poems/envoy-3.html, id L12358.
Form and metre
Envoy is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 50% of the lines. The lines average 9.5 syllables.
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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-- staysA · daysA · plights · nights
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. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| And it’s O, for my dear and the charm that stays— | 11 | ··········· |
| Midsummer days! Midsummer days! | 8 | //˘·//˘· |
| It’s O, for my Love and the dark that plights— | 10 | ·········· |
| Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! | 9 | //˘··//˘· |
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