On Frederick, Duke of Schomberg
Hic infra situm est corpusad BUDINDAM occisi, A.D. 1690.DECANUS et CAPITULUM maximopere etiamatque etiam petierunt,UT HAEREDES DUCIS monumentumIn memoriam PARENTIS erigendum curarent:Sed postquam per epistolas, per amicos,diu ac saepè orando nil profecêre;Hunc demum lapidem ipsi statuerunt,Saltem ut scias, hospes,Ubinam terrarum SCONBERGENSIS cineresdelitescunt"Plus potuit fama virtutis apud alienos,Quam sanguinis proximitas apud suos."A.D. 1731.
Words in this poem
- infra adv.
- Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix. [L. Cf. Inferior.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
On Frederick, Duke of Schomberg 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, On Frederick, Duke of Schomberg, in On Poetry: A Rhapsody, and Other Poems (1727), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #14353, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/swift-poems-vol1/on-frederick-duke-of-schomberg.html, id L24606.
Form and metre
On Frederick, Duke of Schomberg is 15 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.
See 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 -A-B----BCCB--A corpus · — · etiam · petieruntB · monumentum · curarent · amicos · profecêre · statueruntB · hospesC · cineresC · delitescuntB · alienos · suos · —
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hic infra situm est corpus | 9 | ·/˘··˘//˘ |
| ad BUDINDAM occisi, A.D. 1690. | 9 | ········· |
| DECANUS et CAPITULUM maximopere etiam | 14 | ····˘/˘˘······ |
| atque etiam petierunt, | 6 | ······ |
| UT HAEREDES DUCIS monumentum | 9 | ········· |
| In memoriam PARENTIS erigendum curarent: | 14 | ····˘/˘······· |
| Sed postquam per epistolas, per amicos, | 12 | ·········˘/˘ |
| diu ac saepè orando nil profecêre; | 11 | ·//········ |
| Hunc demum lapidem ipsi statuerunt, | 11 | ··········· |
| Saltem ut scias, hospes, | 5 | ····· |
| Ubinam terrarum SCONBERGENSIS cineres | 12 | ············ |
| delitescunt | 4 | ···· |
| "Plus potuit fama virtutis apud alienos, | 13 | ···/˘········ |
| Quam sanguinis proximitas apud suos." | 11 | ··········· |
| A.D. 1731. | 2 | ·· |
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