Filippo . Et . Sallia . Coss I
"praeco diei iam sonatnoctis profundae pervigil,nocturna lux viantibusa nocte noctem segregans.
surgamus ergo strenue:gallus iacentes excitat,et somnolentos increpat:gallus negantes arguit.
gallo canente spes redit,aegris salus refunditur,mucro latronis conditur,lapsis fides revertitur."
"Dawn's herald now begins to cry,Lone watcher of the nightly sky:Light of the dark to pilgrims dear,Speeding successive midnights drear.
Brisk from our couch let us arise!Hark to the cock's arousing cries!He chides the sluggard's slumbrous ease,And shames his unconvincing pleas.
At cock-crow Hope revives again,Health banishes the stress of pain,Sheathed is the nightly robber's sword,And Faith to fallen hearts restored."
(taken from Homer), tum consanguineus Leti Sopor, and Tennyson's"Sleep, Death's twin-brother" (In Memoriam, 68).
"Christusque nobis sit cibusPotusque noster sit fides;Laeti bibamus sobriamEbrietatem Spiritus."
"May Christ be now the Bread we eat,Be simple Faith our potion sweet:Let our intoxication beThe Spirit's calm sobriety."
The idea is familiar to readers of Herbert and Herrick, though itis elaborated by them with quaint conceits somewhat foreign to the
"O what sweetnesse from the bowlFills my soul!
Is some starre (fled from the sphere)Melted there,As we sugar melt in wine?
Doubtless neither starre nor flowerHath the powerSuch a sweetnesse to impart:Only God, Who gives perfumes,Flesh assumes,And with it perfumed my heart."
Words in this poem
- ergo conj.
- Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way. [L.]
- mucro n.
- A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ. [L.]
- fides n.
- Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith. [L., faith.]
- lone n.
- A lane. See Loanin.
- watcher n.
- One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
- nightly a.
- Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.
- drear n.
- Sadness; dismalness.
- slumbrous a.
- Slumberous. Keats.
- sopor n.
- Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty. [L.]
- sobriety n.
- Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. [L. sobrietas: cf. F. sobriété. See Sober.]
- quaint a.
- Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [OE. queint, queynte, coint, prudent, wise, cunning, pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to ]
- starre n.
- One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulæ. [OE. sterre, AS. steorra; akin to OFries. stera, OS. sterro, D. ster, OHG. sterno, sterro, G. stern, Icel. stjarna, Sw. stjerna, Dan. stierne, Goth. staírno, Arm]
- doubtless a.
- Free from fear or suspicion.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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Form and metre
Filippo . Et . Sallia . Coss I is 47 lines in 13 verse paragraphs. It is in rhyming couplets, 51% of the lines. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 74%).
See other poems in rhyming couplets, 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.
- 2 -AA- strenue · excitatA · increpatA · arguit
- 3 -AAA redit · refunditurA · conditurA · revertiturA
- 4 AABB cryA · skyA · dearB · drearB
- 5 AABB ariseA · criesA · easeB · pleasB
- 6 AABB againA · painA · swordB · restoredB
- 8 A--A cibusA · fides · sobriam · spiritusA
- 9 AA-- eatA · sweetA · be · sobriety
- 11 AA bowlA · soulA
- 12 AA- sphereA · thereA · wine
- 13 AABCCB flowerA · powerA · impartB · perfumesC · assumesC · heartB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| "praeco diei iam sonat | 6 | ····/˘ |
| noctis profundae pervigil, | 7 | ······· |
| nocturna lux viantibus | 7 | ······· |
| a nocte noctem segregans. | 7 | ······· |
| surgamus ergo strenue: | 6 | ···/˘· |
| gallus iacentes excitat, | 7 | /˘····· |
| et somnolentos increpat: | 8 | ········ |
| gallus negantes arguit. | 6 | /˘···· |
| gallo canente spes redit, | 7 | /˘····· |
| aegris salus refunditur, | 8 | ··/˘···· |
| mucro latronis conditur, | 8 | /˘······ |
| lapsis fides revertitur." | 7 | ······· |
| "Dawn's herald now begins to cry, | 8 | ·/˘·˘/·· |
| Lone watcher of the nightly sky: | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| Light of the dark to pilgrims dear, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| Speeding successive midnights drear. | 8 | /˘˘/˘/·· |
| Brisk from our couch let us arise! | 8 | ··/···˘/ |
| Hark to the cock's arousing cries! | 8 | ····˘/˘· |
| He chides the sluggard's slumbrous ease, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| And shames his unconvincing pleas. | 8 | ····˘/˘· |
| At cock-crow Hope revives again, | 8 | ····˘/˘/ |
| Health banishes the stress of pain, | 8 | ·/˘˘···· |
| Sheathed is the nightly robber's sword, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| And Faith to fallen hearts restored." | 8 | ···/˘·˘/ |
| (taken from Homer), tum consanguineus Leti Sopor, and Tennyson's | 17 | /˘·/˘·······/˘·/˘ |
| "Sleep, Death's twin-brother" (In Memoriam, 68). | 9 | ···/˘···· |
| "Christusque nobis sit cibus | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Potusque noster sit fides; | 6 | ······ |
| Laeti bibamus sobriam | 7 | ······· |
| Ebrietatem Spiritus." | 7 | ······· |
| "May Christ be now the Bread we eat, | 8 | ········ |
| Be simple Faith our potion sweet: | 8 | ·/˘·//˘· |
| Let our intoxication be | 8 | ·/˘·˘/˘· |
| The Spirit's calm sobriety." | 8 | ·/˘·˘/˘˘ |
| The idea is familiar to readers of Herbert and Herrick, though it | 18 | ·˘/·˘/˘·/˘·/˘·/˘·· |
| is elaborated by them with quaint conceits somewhat foreign to the | 16 | ·˘/˘····˘////˘·· |
| "O what sweetnesse from the bowl | 7 | ······· |
| Fills my soul! | 3 | ··· |
| Is some starre (fled from the sphere) | 7 | ······· |
| Melted there, | 3 | /˘· |
| As we sugar melt in wine? | 7 | ··/˘··· |
| Doubtless neither starre nor flower | 8 | /˘/˘··/˘ |
| Hath the power | 4 | ··/˘ |
| Such a sweetnesse to impart: | 7 | ·····˘/ |
| Only God, Who gives perfumes, | 7 | /˘···˘/ |
| Flesh assumes, | 3 | ·˘/ |
| And with it perfumed my heart." | 8 | ···˘/˘·· |
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