The Antiques at Paris
That which Grecian art created,Let the Frank, with joy elated,Bear to Seine's triumphant strand,And in his museums gloriousShow the trophies all-victoriousTo his wondering fatherland.
They to him are silent ever,Into life's fresh circle neverFrom their pedestals come down.He alone e'er holds the MusesThrough whose breast their power diffuses,--To the Vandal they're but stone!
Words in this poem
- glorious a.
- Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. [OF. glorios, glorious, F. glorieux, fr. L. gloriosus. See Glory, n.]
- fatherland n.
- One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors. [Imitated fr. D. vaderland. See Father, and Land.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Antiques at Paris is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Schiller — Third period, Project Gutenberg ebook #6796; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Friedrich Schiller, The Antiques at Paris, in The Poems of Schiller: Third Period (1805), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/schiller-third-period/the-antiques-at-paris.html, id L21871.
Form and metre
The Antiques at Paris is 12 lines in 2 stanzas of 6 lines each. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 88%).
See 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.
- 1 AABCCB createdA · elatedA · strandB · gloriousC · victoriousC · fatherlandB
- 2 AA-BB- everA · neverA · down · musesB · diffusesB · stone
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 |
|---|---|---|
| That which Grecian art created, | 8 | ··/˘·˘/˘ |
| Let the Frank, with joy elated, | 8 | ·····˘/˘ |
| Bear to Seine's triumphant strand, | 8 | ··/˘˘/˘· |
| And in his museums glorious | 9 | ···˘/˘/˘˘ |
| Show the trophies all-victorious | 9 | ··/˘·˘/˘˘ |
| To his wondering fatherland. | 8 | ··/˘˘/˘· |
| They to him are silent ever, | 8 | ····/˘/˘ |
| Into life's fresh circle never | 8 | ····/˘/˘ |
| From their pedestals come down. | 7 | ··/˘˘·· |
| He alone e'er holds the Muses | 8 | ·˘/···/˘ |
| Through whose breast their power diffuses,-- | 9 | ····/˘˘/˘ |
| To the Vandal they're but stone! | 7 | ··/˘··· |
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