Links
The little and the great are joined in oneBy God's great force. The wondrous golden sunIs linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark;The eagle soars to heaven in his flight;And in those realms of space, all bathed in light,Soar none except the eagle and the lark.
Words in this poem
- wondrous adv.
- In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully. [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.). See Wonder, n., and cf. -wards.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Links is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1, Project Gutenberg ebook #3295; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Emma Lazarus, Links, in Poems, Volume I (1867–1887), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #3295, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/lazarus-poems/links.html, id L01884.
Form and metre
Links is 6 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes AABCCB. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 91%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 10.0 syllables.
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.
- 1 AABCCB oneA · sunA · sparkB · flightC · lightC · larkB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The little and the great are joined in one | 10 | ·/˘······· |
| By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun | 10 | ·····/˘/˘· |
| Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; | 10 | ·/˘··/˘··· |
| And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, | 10 | ·········· |
| Soar none except the eagle and the lark. | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
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