The What-Every-Child- Should-Know-Library
Published byDOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., forPublishers of “The Parents’ Magazine”EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK
About this text
The What-Every-Child- Should-Know-Library is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library, Project Gutenberg ebook #16436; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Mary E. Burt, The What-Every-Child- Should-Know-Library, in Poems Every Child Should Know (1904), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #16436, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/poems-every-child/the-what-every-child-should-know-library.html, id L25149.
Form and metre
The What-Every-Child- Should-Know-Library is 4 lines in a single stanza. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter.
See other poems in iambic 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.
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 tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Published by | 3 | /˘· |
| DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for | 8 | /˘·˘/··· |
| Publishers of “The Parents’ Magazine” | 9 | /˘··/˘/˘· |
| EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK | 6 | ·//··· |
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