By Romesh C. Dutt C.I.E.
ToEver gratefully remembered by my countrymen for hisjust and benevolent administration and for hisgenerous and helpful measures for theintroduction of self-governmentin India
Words in this poem
- generous a.
- Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. [F. généreux, fr. L. generous of noble birth, noble, excellent, magnanimous, fr. genus birth, race: cf. It. generoso. See 2d Gender.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
By Romesh C. Dutt C.I.E. is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Mahabharata (condensed), Project Gutenberg ebook #19630, the Romesh Chunder Dutt translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Vyasa, By Romesh C. Dutt C.I.E., in The Mahabharata (condensed) (1899), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #19630, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/mahabharata/by-romesh-c-dutt-c-i-e.html, id L15753.
Form and metre
By Romesh C. Dutt C.I.E. is 6 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 8.8 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
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 ABBA-- toA · hisB · hisB · theA · government · india
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 |
|---|---|---|
| To | 1 | · |
| Ever gratefully remembered by my countrymen for his | 15 | /˘/˘˘˘/˘··/˘˘·· |
| just and benevolent administration and for his | 14 | ··˘/˘˘˘·˘/˘··· |
| generous and helpful measures for the | 10 | /˘˘·/˘/˘·· |
| introduction of self-government | 9 | ·˘/˘··/˘˘ |
| in India | 4 | ·/˘˘ |
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