Figurines in Old Saxe
PatternsPickthorn ManorThe Cremona ViolinThe Cross-RoadsA Roxbury Garden
Words in this poem
- cremona n.
- A superior kind of violin, formerly made at Cremona, in Italy.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Figurines in Old Saxe is in the public domain. This text is taken from Men, Women and Ghosts, Project Gutenberg ebook #841; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Amy Lowell, Figurines in Old Saxe, in Men, Women and Ghosts (1916), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #841, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/lowell-amy-men-women-ghosts/figurines-in-old-saxe.html, id L24251.
Form and metre
Figurines in Old Saxe is 5 lines in a single stanza. 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.
- 1 --A-A patterns · manor · violinA · roads · gardenA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Patterns | 2 | /˘ |
| Pickthorn Manor | 4 | ··/˘ |
| The Cremona Violin | 7 | ·˘/˘˘˘/ |
| The Cross-Roads | 3 | ··· |
| A Roxbury Garden | 6 | ·/·˘/˘ |
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