Fragment 5, tr. Anon. (Edinburgh Review) (1832)
Come, Venus, comeHither with thy golden cup,Where nectar-floated flowerets swim.Fill, fill the goblet up;These laughing lips shall kiss the brim,—Come, Venus, come!
Words in this poem
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Fragment 5, tr. Anon. (Edinburgh Review) (1832) is in the public domain. This text is taken from Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation (ed. Henry Thornton Wharton, John Lane, 1908, fifth edition), Project Gutenberg ebook #57390, the Various (ed. H. T. Wharton) 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
Fragment 5, tr. Anon. (Edinburgh Review) (1832) is 6 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABCBCA. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 93%).
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 ABCBCA comeA · cupB · swimC · upB · brimC · comeA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Come, Venus, come | 4 | ·/˘· |
| Hither with thy golden cup, | 7 | /˘··/˘· |
| Where nectar-floated flowerets swim. | 9 | ·/˘/˘···· |
| Fill, fill the goblet up; | 6 | ···/˘· |
| These laughing lips shall kiss the brim,— | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Come, Venus, come! | 4 | ·/˘· |
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