By the Rev. J. Plumptre
Such talents and such piety combined,With such unfeign'd humility of mind,Bespoke him fair to tread the way to fame,And live an honour to the Christian name.But Heaven was pleased to stop his fleeting hour,And blight the fragrance of the opening flower.We mourn--but not for him, removed from pain;Our loss, we trust, is his eternal gain:With him we'll strive to win the Saviour's love,And hope to join him with the blest above.
Words in this poem
- honour n.
- Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. [OE. honor, honour, onour, onur, OF. honor, onor, honur, onur, honour, onour, F. honneur, fr. L. honor, honos.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
By the Rev. J. Plumptre is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas, Project Gutenberg ebook #7149; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
By the Rev. J. Plumptre is 10 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets: heroic couplets. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 88%). 94% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 10.1 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
See other poems in heroic couplets, 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.
- 1 AABBCCDDEE combinedA · mindA · fameB · nameB · hourC · flowerC · painD · gainD · loveE · aboveE
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Such talents and such piety combined, | 10 | ·/˘··/˘˘˘/ |
| With such unfeign'd humility of mind, | 10 | ····˘/˘˘·· |
| Bespoke him fair to tread the way to fame, | 10 | ˘/········ |
| And live an honour to the Christian name. | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| But Heaven was pleased to stop his fleeting hour, | 11 | ·/·····/˘/˘ |
| And blight the fragrance of the opening flower. | 10 | ···/˘··/˘/ |
| We mourn--but not for him, removed from pain; | 10 | ······˘/·· |
| Our loss, we trust, is his eternal gain: | 10 | /·····˘/˘· |
| With him we'll strive to win the Saviour's love, | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| And hope to join him with the blest above. | 10 | ·········· |
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