Peace
No more to watch by Night's eternal shore,With England's chivalry at dawn to ride;No more defeat, faith, victory--O! no moreA cause on earth for which we might have died.
Words in this poem
- defeat v. t.
- To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [From F. défait, OF. desfait, p. p. ofe défaire, OF. desfaire, to undo; L. dis- + facere to do. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Disfashion.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Peace is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems: New and Old, Project Gutenberg ebook #24405; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Henry John Newbolt, Peace, in Poems: New and Old (1912), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #24405, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/newbolt-poems/peace.html, id L11423.
Form and metre
Peace is 4 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABAB. The lines average 10.0 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.
- 1 ABAB shoreA · rideB · moreA · diedB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| No more to watch by Night's eternal shore, | 10 | ······˘/˘· |
| With England's chivalry at dawn to ride; | 10 | ·/˘/˘˘···· |
| No more defeat, faith, victory--O! no more | 10 | ··˘/·/˘··· |
| A cause on earth for which we might have died. | 10 | ·········· |
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