Sun

Henry Rowe (1750–1819) · 1750–1819

trochaic tetrameter · 15 lines · from Poems

Angel, king of streaming morn;Cherub, call’d by Heav’n to shine;T’ orient tread the waste forlorn;Guide ætherial, pow’r divine;Thou, Lord of all within!

Golden spirit, lamp of day,Host, that dips in blood the plain,Bids the crimson’d mead be gay,Bids the green blood burst the vein;Thou, Lord of all within!

Soul, that wraps the globe in light;Spirit, beckoning to arise;Drives the frowning brow of night,Glory bursting o’er the skies;Thou, Lord of all within!

Words in this poem

streaming a.
Sending forth streams.
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.]
cherub n.
A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x. [Heb. kerub.]
forlorn a.
Deserted abandoned; lost. [OE., p.p. of forlesen to lose utterly, AS. forleósan (p.p. forloren); pref. for- + leósan (in comp.) to lose; cf. D. verliezen to lose, G. verlieren, Sw. förlor]
therial a.
Theriac. Holland.

Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.

About this text

Sun is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, Project Gutenberg ebook #66619; 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 Rowe, Sun, in Poems (1750–1819), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #66619, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/obev-henry-rowe/sun.html, id L16170.

Form and metre

Sun is 15 lines in 3 stanzas of 5 lines each. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 89%). 92% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.9 syllables.

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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. 1 ABAB- mornA · shineB · forlornA · divineB · within
  2. 2 ABAB- dayA · plainB · gayA · veinB · within
  3. 3 ABAB- lightA · ariseB · nightA · skiesB · within
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 trochaic tetrameter. How this is done.

LineSyl.Stress
Angel, king of streaming morn;7/˘··/˘·
Cherub, call’d by Heav’n to shine;7/˘·····
T’ orient tread the waste forlorn;9·/˘····˘/
Guide ætherial, pow’r divine;7·/˘˘·˘/
Thou, Lord of all within!6······
Golden spirit, lamp of day,7/˘/˘···
Host, that dips in blood the plain,7·······
Bids the crimson’d mead be gay,7·······
Bids the green blood burst the vein;7·······
Thou, Lord of all within!6······
Soul, that wraps the globe in light;7·······
Spirit, beckoning to arise;7//˘˘·˘/
Drives the frowning brow of night,7··/˘···
Glory bursting o’er the skies;7/˘/˘···
Thou, Lord of all within!6······

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