Ad Horatium Cum Carthio Constrictum
Lectores ridere jubes dum Carthius astat?Iste procul depellit olens tibi Maevius omnes:Sic triviis veneranda diu, Jovis inclyta prolesTerruit, assumpto, mortales, Gorgonis ore.
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Ad Horatium Cum Carthio Constrictum is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2, Project Gutenberg ebook #13621; 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, Ad Horatium Cum Carthio Constrictum, in Cadenus and Vanessa, and Other Poems (1710–1745), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #13621, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/swift-poems/ad-horatium-cum-carthio-constrictum.html, id L09364.
Form and metre
Ad Horatium Cum Carthio Constrictum is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 50% of the lines. The lines average 12.0 syllables.
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Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
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- 1 -AA- astat · omnesA · prolesA · ore
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. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Lectores ridere jubes dum Carthius astat? | 10 | /˘········ |
| Iste procul depellit olens tibi Maevius omnes: | 13 | ······/˘/···· |
| Sic triviis veneranda diu, Jovis inclyta proles | 14 | ········/˘···· |
| Terruit, assumpto, mortales, Gorgonis ore. | 11 | ·····/˘···· |
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