The Head of Bran the Blest III
Bran lies low with thee.
Burst, Morn, from the main!Bran so shall rise again.
Bran’s Head is the Briton’s shield.
Bright burns the Head of Bran the Blest.
Words in this poem
- morn n.
- The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. [OE. morwen, morgen, AS. morgen; akin to D. morgen, OS. morgan, G. morgen, Icel. morginn, morgunn, Sw. morgon, Dan. morgen, Goth. maúrgins. Cf. Morrow, Morning.]
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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Form and metre
The Head of Bran the Blest III is 5 lines in 4 stanzas. The lines average 6.2 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.
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.
- 2 AA mainA · againA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bran lies low with thee. | 5 | ····· |
| Burst, Morn, from the main! | 5 | ····· |
| Bran so shall rise again. | 6 | ····˘/ |
| Bran’s Head is the Briton’s shield. | 7 | ····/˘· |
| Bright burns the Head of Bran the Blest. | 8 | ········ |
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