Englished
A treasure found one, entring at death's gate,Triumphing leaves that cord, was meant his fate;But he the gold missing, which he did hide,The halter which he found he knit: so dy'd.
Words in this poem
- triumphing a.
- Having or celebrating a triumph; victorious; triumphant.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Englished 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, Englished, in Lucasta (1649), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #703, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/lovelace-lucasta/englished-3.html, id L13087.
Form and metre
Englished is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets. The lines average 10.0 syllables.
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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 AABB gateA · fateA · hideB · dy'dB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| A treasure found one, entring at death's gate, | 10 | ·/˘··/˘··· |
| Triumphing leaves that cord, was meant his fate; | 10 | /˘˘······· |
| But he the gold missing, which he did hide, | 10 | ····/˘···· |
| The halter which he found he knit: so dy'd. | 10 | ·/˘······· |
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