A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: Harriet Beecher Stowe
The pure and worthy Mrs. StoweIs one we all are proud to knowAs mother, wife, and authoress,—Thank God I am content with less!
Words in this poem
- authoress n.
- A female author. Glover.
- thank n.
- A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. [AS. Þanc, Þonc, thanks, favor, thought; akin to OS. thank favor, pleasure, thanks, D. & G. dank thanks, Icel. Þ\'94kk, Dan. tak, Sw. tack, Goth. Þagks thanks; -]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: Harriet Beecher Stowe is in the public domain. This text is taken from Sunset Gun: Poems (Boni & Liveright, 1928), English Wikisource; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Dorothy Parker, A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Sunset Gun (1928), text of English Wikisource, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/parker-sunset-gun/pigs-eye-harriet-beecher-stowe.html, id L27424.
Form and metre
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: Harriet Beecher Stowe is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets.
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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 AABB stoweA · knowA · authoressB · lessB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The pure and worthy Mrs. Stowe | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| Is one we all are proud to know | 8 | ········ |
| As mother, wife, and authoress,— | 8 | ·/˘··/˘˘ |
| Thank God I am content with less! | 8 | ····/˘·· |
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