Revised Edition
Obvious typesetting errors have been corrected without note, howeveradditional corrections have been recorded in the Transcriber'sEndnotes at the end each volume.
Words in this poem
- obvious a.
- Opposing; fronting. [L. obvius; ob (see Ob-) + via way. See Voyage.]
- typesetting n.
- The act or art of setting type.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Revised Edition is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2, Project Gutenberg ebook #22421; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Robert Herrick, Revised Edition, in Hesperides (1648), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22421, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/herrick-hesperides/revised-edition.html, id L18491.
Form and metre
Revised Edition is 3 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 13.7 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Obvious typesetting errors have been corrected without note, however | 18 | /˘/·˘/˘··˘/˘····/˘ |
| additional corrections have been recorded in the Transcriber's | 15 | ˘/˘˘/˘··˘/˘··˘/ |
| Endnotes at the end each volume. | 8 | ······/˘ |
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