And
“Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illoSedibus æthereis spiritus ille venit.”
“Immortales mortales si fas esset fiere,Flerent divæ Camœnæ Nævium poetam;Itaque postquam est Orcino traditus thesauro,Obliti sunt Romæ linguâ loqui Latinâ.”
“Cato grammaticus, Latina syren,Qui solus legit, et facit poetas.”
Horace, his judgment of Chœrillus defended against Joseph Scaliger.And of Laberius against Julius.
“Et, quæ per salebras, altaque saxa cadunt,Accius et quidquid Pacuviusque vomunt.Attonitusque legis terraï, frugiferaï.”
Words in this poem
- solus a.
- Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like. [L.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
And is in the public domain. This text is taken from Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #5134; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Ben Jonson, And, in Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems (1616), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #5134, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/jonson-poems/and.html, id L23796.
Form and metre
And is 13 lines in 5 stanzas. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
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.
- 5 AA- caduntA · vomuntA · frugiferaï
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 |
|---|---|---|
| “Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo | 15 | ˘/··/˘········· |
| Sedibus æthereis spiritus ille venit.” | 11 | ··········· |
| “Immortales mortales si fas esset fiere, | 10 | ˘/˘/˘····· |
| Flerent divæ Camœnæ Nævium poetam; | 9 | ········· |
| Itaque postquam est Orcino traditus thesauro, | 15 | ····˘/········· |
| Obliti sunt Romæ linguâ loqui Latinâ.” | 11 | ·········/˘ |
| “Cato grammaticus, Latina syren, | 11 | /˘····˘/˘/˘ |
| Qui solus legit, et facit poetas.” | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| Horace, his judgment of Chœrillus defended against Joseph Scaliger. | 19 | /˘·/˘····˘/˘··/˘··· |
| And of Laberius against Julius. | 9 | ·······/˘ |
| “Et, quæ per salebras, altaque saxa cadunt, | 12 | ············ |
| Accius et quidquid Pacuviusque vomunt. | 10 | ·········· |
| Attonitusque legis terraï, frugiferaï.” | 12 | ······/˘···· |
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