III. On a Window at the Four Crosses, in the Watling-Street Road, Warwickshire
Fool, to put up four crosses at your door,Put up your wife, she's CROSSER than all four.
About this text
III. On a Window at the Four Crosses, in the Watling-Street Road, Warwickshire 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, III. On a Window at the Four Crosses, in the Watling-Street Road, Warwickshire, in On Poetry: A Rhapsody, and Other Poems (1727), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #14353, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/swift-poems-vol1/iii-on-a-window-at-the-four-crosses-in-the-watling-street-road-warwickshire.html, id L25629.
Form and metre
III. On a Window at the Four Crosses, in the Watling-Street Road, Warwickshire is 2 lines in a single stanza. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
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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 doorA · fourA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fool, to put up four crosses at your door, | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Put up your wife, she's CROSSER than all four. | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
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