Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned'
And that I walk thus proudly crowned withalIs that 'tis my distinction; if I fall,I shall not weep out of the vital day,To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay.
Words in this poem
- withal adv.
- With this; with that. [With + all.]
- 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: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned' is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2, Project Gutenberg ebook #4798; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned', in Ode to the West Wind, and Other Poems (1816–1819), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #4798, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/shelley-later-poems/fragment-and-that-i-walk-thus-proudly-crowned.html, id L16469.
Form and metre
Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned' is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets: heroic couplets. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter. 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 10.0 syllables.
See other poems in heroic couplets, other poems in iambic pentameter.
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 AABB withalA · fallA · dayB · decayB
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 pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal | 10 | ·····/˘·˘/ |
| Is that 'tis my distinction; if I fall, | 10 | ····˘/˘··· |
| I shall not weep out of the vital day, | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay. | 10 | ·/˘·····˘/ |
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