The One
The dead man's gone, the live man's sad, the dying leaf shakeson the tree,The wind constrains the window-panes and moans like moaningof the sea,And sour's the taste now culled in haste of lovely things I wontoo late,And loud and loud above the crowd the Voice of One more strongthan we.
About this text
The One is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems - First Series, Project Gutenberg ebook #37860; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: John Collings Squire, The One, in Poems: First Series (1918), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #37860, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/squire-poems/the-one.html, id L25361.
Form and metre
The One is 8 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 97%).
See other poems in iambic heptameter.
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 -ABA--BA shakes · treeA · moaningB · seaA · won · late · strongB · weA
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 heptameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| The dead man's gone, the live man's sad, the dying leaf shakes | 13 | ·········/˘·· |
| on the tree, | 3 | ··· |
| The wind constrains the window-panes and moans like moaning | 13 | ··˘/·/˘····/˘ |
| of the sea, | 3 | ··· |
| And sour's the taste now culled in haste of lovely things I won | 14 | ·/·······/˘··· |
| too late, | 2 | ·· |
| And loud and loud above the crowd the Voice of One more strong | 14 | ·············· |
| than we. | 2 | ·· |
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