Ausonius Epig
Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est,Doctum et grammaticum te, philomuse, putas.Quinetiam cytharas, chordas et barbita conde:Mercator hodie, cras citharoedus, eris.
Words in this poem
- quod v.
- Quoth; said. See Quoth.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Ausonius Epig is in the public domain. This text is taken from Lucasta, Project Gutenberg ebook #703; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Richard Lovelace, Ausonius Epig, in Lucasta (1649), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #703, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/lovelace-lucasta/ausonius-epig.html, id L13094.
Form and metre
Ausonius Epig is 4 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 13.5 syllables.
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.
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. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est, | 16 | ·····/········˘/ |
| Doctum et grammaticum te, philomuse, putas. | 13 | ············· |
| Quinetiam cytharas, chordas et barbita conde: | 13 | ············· |
| Mercator hodie, cras citharoedus, eris. | 12 | ˘/˘········· |
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