Another
By Satan taught, all conjurors knowYour mistress in a glass to show,And you can do as much:In this the devil and you agree;None e'er made verses worse than he,And thine, I swear, are such.
About this text
Another is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1, Project Gutenberg ebook #14353; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Jonathan Swift, Another, in On Poetry: A Rhapsody, and Other Poems (1727), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #14353, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/swift-poems-vol1/another-2.html, id L25633.
Form and metre
Another is 6 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes AABCCB. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 87%).
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 AABCCB knowA · showA · muchB · agreeC · heC · suchB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| By Satan taught, all conjurors know | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| Your mistress in a glass to show, | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| And you can do as much: | 6 | ······ |
| In this the devil and you agree; | 8 | ···/··˘/ |
| None e'er made verses worse than he, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| And thine, I swear, are such. | 6 | ······ |
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