Sun
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.
See other poems in trochaic tetrameter.
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- mornA · shineB · forlornA · divineB · within
- 2 ABAB- dayA · plainB · gayA · veinB · within
- 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.
| Line | Syl. | 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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