Art, the Herald II
Come; come and see the secret of the sun;The sorrow that holds the warring worlds in one;The pain that holds Eternity in an hour;One God in every seed self-sacrificed,One star-eyed, star-crowned universal Christ,Re-crucified in every wayside flower.
Words in this poem
- wayside n.
- The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Art, the Herald II is in the public domain. This text is taken from Collected Poems: Volume One, Project Gutenberg ebook #30501; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Alfred Noyes, Art, the Herald II, in Collected Poems, Volume One (1913), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #30501, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/noyes-collected/art-the-herald-ii.html, id L21425.
Form and metre
Art, the Herald II is 6 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes AABCCB. The metre is iambic hexameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 81%).
See other poems in iambic hexameter.
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 AABCCB sunA · oneA · hourB · sacrificedC · christC · flowerB
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 hexameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Come; come and see the secret of the sun; | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| The sorrow that holds the warring worlds in one; | 11 | ·/˘···/˘··· |
| The pain that holds Eternity in an hour; | 10 | ····˘/˘··/ |
| One God in every seed self-sacrificed, | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| One star-eyed, star-crowned universal Christ, | 10 | ······˘/˘· |
| Re-crucified in every wayside flower. | 11 | ·/˘··/˘/·/˘ |
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