A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: Walter Savage Landor
Upon the work of Walter LandorI am unfit to write with candor.If you can read it, well and good;But as for me, I never could.
Words in this poem
- walter v. i.
- To roll or wallow; to welter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [See Welter.]
- candor n.
- Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. [L. candor, fr. candëre; cf. F. candeur. See candid.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: Walter Savage Landor 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: Walter Savage Landor, in Sunset Gun (1928), text of English Wikisource, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/parker-sunset-gun/pigs-eye-walter-savage-landor.html, id L27431.
Form and metre
A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature: Walter Savage Landor 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 landorA · candorA · goodB · couldB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Upon the work of Walter Landor | 9 | ·····/˘/˘ |
| I am unfit to write with candor. | 9 | ··˘/···/˘ |
| If you can read it, well and good; | 8 | ········ |
| But as for me, I never could. | 8 | ·····/˘· |
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