Edited by Frederic Chapman
Price 1/6 net Bound in Cloth Price 50 cents netPrice 2/- net Bound in Leather Price 75 cents net
Vol. I. THE LOVE POEMS OF SHELLEYVol. II. THE LOVE POEMS OF BROWNINGVol. III. THE SILENCE OF LOVE
About this text
Edited by Frederic Chapman is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Blessed Damozel, Project Gutenberg ebook #52695; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edited by Frederic Chapman, in The Blessed Damozel (1881), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #52695, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/rossetti-blessed-damozel/edited-by-frederic-chapman.html, id L23553.
Form and metre
Edited by Frederic Chapman is 5 lines in 2 stanzas. 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.
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 AA netA · netA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Price 1/6 net Bound in Cloth Price 50 cents net | 8 | ········ |
| Price 2/- net Bound in Leather Price 75 cents net | 9 | ····/˘··· |
| Vol. I. THE LOVE POEMS OF SHELLEY | 9 | ····/˘·/˘ |
| Vol. II. THE LOVE POEMS OF BROWNING | 9 | ····/˘·/˘ |
| Vol. III. THE SILENCE OF LOVE | 7 | ···/˘·· |
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