Verses: Faiz Ulla
Just in the hush before dawnA little wistful wind is born.A little chilly errant breeze,That thrills the grasses, stirs the trees.And, as it wanders on its way,While yet the night is cool and dark,The first carol of the lark,--Its plaintive murmurs seem to say"I wait the sorrows of the day."
Words in this poem
- wistful a.
- Longing; wishful; desirous. [For wishful; perhaps influenced by wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly (from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See Wish.]
- errant n.
- One who wanders about. Fuller.
- carol v. t.
- To praise or celebrate in song.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Verses: Faiz Ulla is in the public domain. This text is taken from India's Love Lyrics, Project Gutenberg ebook #8197; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Laurence Hope, Verses: Faiz Ulla, in India's Love Lyrics (1901), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #8197, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hope-india/verses-faiz-ulla.html, id L22605.
Form and metre
Verses: Faiz Ulla is 9 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 94%).
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 --AABCCBB dawn · born · breezeA · treesA · wayB · darkC · larkC · sayB · dayB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Just in the hush before dawn | 7 | ······· |
| A little wistful wind is born. | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| A little chilly errant breeze, | 8 | ·/˘/˘/˘· |
| That thrills the grasses, stirs the trees. | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| And, as it wanders on its way, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| While yet the night is cool and dark, | 8 | ········ |
| The first carol of the lark,-- | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Its plaintive murmurs seem to say | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| "I wait the sorrows of the day." | 8 | ···/˘··· |
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