Out of Frenshe into Latyn
Abstulit atra dies Astræam; cana Fides sedSomno pressa jacet; Jus iter arripuit,Et secum Ratio proficiscens limite longo:Nemo duas primas evigilare parat;Atque duo postrema absunt, et munera tantumImpediunt, nequeunt quod remeare domum.
Words in this poem
- fides n.
- Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith. [L., faith.]
- iter n.
- A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius. [L. See Eyre.]
- quod v.
- Quoth; said. See Quoth.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Out of Frenshe into Latyn is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 1 (of 2), Project Gutenberg ebook #59997; 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
Out of Frenshe into Latyn is 6 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic hexameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 84%). 75% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 12.2 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
See other poems in iambic hexameter.
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 ----AA sed · arripuit · longo · parat · tantumA · domumA
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 hexameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Abstulit atra dies Astræam; cana Fides sed | 12 | ···/˘···/˘·· |
| Somno pressa jacet; Jus iter arripuit, | 12 | ·······/˘··· |
| Et secum Ratio proficiscens limite longo: | 14 | ···/˘·······/˘ |
| Nemo duas primas evigilare parat; | 11 | /˘·/˘······ |
| Atque duo postrema absunt, et munera tantum | 14 | ·/˘··········· |
| Impediunt, nequeunt quod remeare domum. | 10 | ·········· |
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