Womenkind
"A Millet in word-painting, who writes with a terrible simplicity, isWilfrid Wilson Gibson, born in Hexham, England, in 1878, of whom CanonCheyne wrote: 'A new poet of the people has risen up among us--the storyof a soul is written as plainly in "Daily Bread" as in "The DivineComedy" and in "Paradise Lost."'"
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Words in this poem
- wrote v. i.
- To root with the snout. See 1st Root. [OE. wroten. See 1st Root.]
- avenue n.
- A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. [F. avenue, fr. avenir to come to, L. advenire. See Advene.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Womenkind is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Story of a Round-House, and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #40717; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: John Masefield, Womenkind, in The Story of a Round-House, and Other Poems (1912), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #40717, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/masefield-round-house/womenkind.html, id L25031.
Form and metre
Womenkind is 6 lines in 2 stanzas. 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- is · canonA · story · divineA · lost
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 |
|---|---|---|
| "A Millet in word-painting, who writes with a terrible simplicity, is | 17 | ·/˘··/˘····/˘˘/˘· |
| Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, born in Hexham, England, in 1878, of whom Canon | 17 | /˘/˘/˘····/˘···/˘ |
| Cheyne wrote: 'A new poet of the people has risen up among us--the story | 20 | ····/˘··/˘·/˘·····/˘ |
| of a soul is written as plainly in "Daily Bread" as in "The Divine | 18 | ····/˘·/˘·/˘····˘/ |
| Comedy" and in "Paradise Lost."'" | 9 | /˘˘··/˘·· |
| Publishers -- 64-66 Fifth Avenue -- New York | 9 | /˘˘·/˘··· |
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