Stanzas (From Tylney Hall.)
Still glides the gentle streamlet on,With shifting current new and strange;The water that was here is gone,But those green shadows do not change.
Serene, or ruffled by the storm,On present waves as on the past,The mirrored grave retains its form,The self-same trees their semblance cast.
The hue each fleeting globule wears,That drop bequeaths it to the next,One picture still the surface bears,To illustrate the murmured text.
So, love, however time may flow,Fresh hours pursuing those that fleeOne constant image still shall showMy tide of life is true to thee!
Words in this poem
- streamlet n.
- A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
- globule n.
- A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. [L. globulus, dim. of globus globe: cf. F. globule.]
- 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,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
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Form and metre
Stanzas (From Tylney Hall.) is 16 lines in 4 stanzas of 4 lines each. Every stanza rhymes ABAB. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 96%).
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
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 ABAB onA · strangeB · goneA · changeB
- 2 ABAB stormA · pastB · formA · castB
- 3 ABAB wearsA · nextB · bearsA · textB
- 4 ABAB flowA · fleeB · showA · theeB
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 tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Still glides the gentle streamlet on, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| With shifting current new and strange; | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| The water that was here is gone, | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| But those green shadows do not change. | 8 | ···/···· |
| Serene, or ruffled by the storm, | 8 | ˘/·/˘··· |
| On present waves as on the past, | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| The mirrored grave retains its form, | 8 | ·/˘·˘/·· |
| The self-same trees their semblance cast. | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| The hue each fleeting globule wears, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| That drop bequeaths it to the next, | 8 | ··˘/···· |
| One picture still the surface bears, | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| To illustrate the murmured text. | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| So, love, however time may flow, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Fresh hours pursuing those that flee | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| One constant image still shall show | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| My tide of life is true to thee! | 8 | ········ |
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