Under the General Editorship of F. B. Money-Coutts
Vol. I. Gray's Elegy and Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.With Twelve Illustrations by J. T. Friedenson.
Vol. II. The Statue and the Bust. By Robert Browning. With NineIllustrations by Philip Connard.
Vol. III. Marpessa. By Stephen Phillips. With Seven Illustrations byPhilip Connard.
IV. The Blessed Damozel. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With EightIllustrations by Percy Bulcock.
Vol. V. The Nut-Brown Maid. A New Version by F. B. Money-Coutts. WithNine Illustrations by Herbert Cole.
Vol. VI. A Dream of Fair Women. By Alfred Tennyson. WithIllustrations.
Vol. VIII. A Ballade upon a Wedding. By Sir John Suckling. With NineIllustrations by Herbert Cole.
Words in this poem
- elegy n.
- A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
- cole n.
- A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis, the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage, akin to Gr. Cauliflower, Kale.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Under the General Editorship of F. B. Money-Coutts 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, Under the General Editorship of F. B. Money-Coutts, in The Blessed Damozel (1881), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #52695, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/rossetti-blessed-damozel/under-the-general-editorship-of-f-b-money-coutts.html, id L23554.
Form and metre
Under the General Editorship of F. B. Money-Coutts is 14 lines in 7 stanzas of 2 lines each. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vol. I. Gray's Elegy and Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. | 18 | ···/˘····/˘/˘·/˘/˘ |
| With Twelve Illustrations by J. T. Friedenson. | 12 | ···˘/˘······ |
| Vol. II. The Statue and the Bust. By Robert Browning. With Nine | 15 | ···/·····/˘/˘·· |
| Illustrations by Philip Connard. | 9 | ·˘/˘·/˘·· |
| Vol. III. Marpessa. By Stephen Phillips. With Seven Illustrations by | 17 | ······/˘/˘·/·˘/˘· |
| Philip Connard. | 4 | /˘·· |
| IV. The Blessed Damozel. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With Eight | 16 | ·······/˘/˘˘/˘·· |
| Illustrations by Percy Bulcock. | 9 | ·˘/˘·/˘·· |
| Vol. V. The Nut-Brown Maid. A New Version by F. B. Money-Coutts. With | 17 | ········/˘···/˘·· |
| Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole. | 9 | ··˘/˘·/˘· |
| Vol. VI. A Dream of Fair Women. By Alfred Tennyson. With | 14 | ······/˘·/˘/˘· |
| Illustrations. | 4 | ·˘/˘ |
| Vol. VIII. A Ballade upon a Wedding. By Sir John Suckling. With Nine | 17 | ···˘/···/˘···/˘·· |
| Illustrations by Herbert Cole. | 8 | ·˘/˘·/˘· |
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