The Homerides
Who is the bard of the Iliad among you? For since he likes puddings,Heyne begs he'll accept these that from Gottingen come."Give them to me! The kings' quarrel I sang!"--"I, the fight near the vessels!"--"Hand me the puddings!I sang what upon Ida took place!"Gently! Don't tear me to pieces! The puddings will not be sufficient;He by whom they are sent destined them only for one.
Words in this poem
- heyne n.
- A wretch; a rascal. [AS. heán low, mean.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Homerides 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 Homerides, in The Poems of Schiller: Third Period (1805), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/schiller-third-period/the-homerides.html, id L21909.
Form and metre
The Homerides is 7 lines in a single stanza. 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 A--A--- puddingsA · come · sang · puddingsA · place · sufficient · one
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Who is the bard of the Iliad among you? For since he likes puddings, | 17 | ······/˘·······/˘ |
| Heyne begs he'll accept these that from Gottingen come. | 12 | ···˘/······· |
| "Give them to me! The kings' quarrel I sang!"-- | 10 | ······/˘·· |
| "I, the fight near the vessels!"--"Hand me the puddings! | 12 | ·····/˘···/˘ |
| I sang what upon Ida took place!" | 9 | ·····/˘·· |
| Gently! Don't tear me to pieces! The puddings will not be sufficient; | 17 | /˘····/˘·/˘···˘/˘ |
| He by whom they are sent destined them only for one. | 13 | ······/˘·/˘·· |
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