He Cares Not for Sufferings, So That He Displease Not Laura (Wrangham)
O Love, that seest my heart without disguise,And those hard toils from thee which I sustain,Look to my inmost thought; behold the painTo thee unveil'd, hid from all other eyes.Thou know'st for thee this breast what suffering tries;Me still from day to day o'er hill and plainThou chasest; heedless still, while I complainAs to my wearied steps new thorns arise.True, I discern far off the cheering lightTo which, through trackless wilds, thou urgest me:But wings like thine to bear me to delightI want:--Yet from these pangs I would not flee,Finding this only favour in her sight,That not displeased my love and death she see.
Words in this poem
- inmost a.
- Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost. [OE. innemest, AS. innemest, a double superlative form fr. inne within, fr. in in. The modern form is due to confusion with most. See In, and cf. Aftermost, Fore]
- trackless a.
- Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert.
- favour n.
- Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. [Written also favour.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
He Cares Not for Sufferings, So That He Displease Not Laura (Wrangham) is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #17650, the various hands translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
He Cares Not for Sufferings, So That He Displease Not Laura (Wrangham) is 14 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABBAABBACDCDCD, the pattern of the Italian sonnet. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 90%).
See other Italian sonnets, other poems in iambic pentameter.
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 ABBAABBACDCDCD disguiseA · sustainB · painB · eyesA · triesA · plainB · complainB · ariseA · lightC · meD · delightC · fleeD · sightC · seeD
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 pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| O Love, that seest my heart without disguise, | 10 | ········˘/ |
| And those hard toils from thee which I sustain, | 10 | ········˘/ |
| Look to my inmost thought; behold the pain | 10 | ···/˘·˘/·· |
| To thee unveil'd, hid from all other eyes. | 10 | ··˘/···/˘· |
| Thou know'st for thee this breast what suffering tries; | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| Me still from day to day o'er hill and plain | 10 | ·········· |
| Thou chasest; heedless still, while I complain | 10 | ·/˘/˘···˘/ |
| As to my wearied steps new thorns arise. | 10 | ···/˘···˘/ |
| True, I discern far off the cheering light | 10 | ··˘/···/˘· |
| To which, through trackless wilds, thou urgest me: | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| But wings like thine to bear me to delight | 10 | ········˘/ |
| I want:--Yet from these pangs I would not flee, | 10 | ·········· |
| Finding this only favour in her sight, | 10 | /˘·/˘/˘··· |
| That not displeased my love and death she see. | 10 | ··˘/······ |
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