Poem VII
"In aeterno igniCruciantur rustici, qui non sunt tam digniQuod bibisse noverint bonum vinum vini."
"Aestimetur laicus ut brutus,Nam ad artem surdus est et mutus."
"Litteratos convocat decus virginale,Laicorum execrat pectus bestiale."
"O clerici dilecti,Discite vitareTabernam horribilem,Qui cupitis regnare;Nec audeant vos rusticiPlagis verberare!
"Rusticus dum seSentit ebriatum,Clericum non reputatMilitem armatum.Vere plane consuloUt abstineatis,Nec unquam cum rusticisTabernam ineatis."
Words in this poem
- quod v.
- Quoth; said. See Quoth.
- vinum n.
- Wine, --chiefly used in Pharmacy in the name of solutions of some medicinal substance in wine; as: vina medicata, medicated wines; vinum opii, wine of opium.
- pectus n.
- The breast of a bird. [L., the breast.]
- vere v. i.
- To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. [F. virer (cf. Sp. virar, birar), LL. virare; perhaps fr. L. vibrare to brandish, vibrate (cf. Vibrate); or cf. L. viriae armlets, bracelets, viriola a little br]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Poem VII is in the public domain. This text is taken from Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse, Project Gutenberg ebook #18044; 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 Addington Symonds, Poem VII, in Wine, Women and Song (1884), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #18044, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/symonds-wine-women/poem-vii.html, id L11804.
Form and metre
Poem VII is 21 lines in 5 stanzas. The metre is trochaic trimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 88%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.5 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 38% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in trochaic trimeter.
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 AA- igniA · digniA · vini
- 2 AA brutusA · mutusA
- 4 -A-A-A dilecti · vitareA · horribilem · regnareA · rustici · verberareA
- 5 -A-A-BBB se · ebriatumA · reputat · armatumA · consulo · abstineatisB · rusticisB · ineatisB
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 trochaic trimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| "In aeterno igni | 6 | ······ |
| Cruciantur rustici, qui non sunt tam digni | 12 | ············ |
| Quod bibisse noverint bonum vinum vini." | 12 | ······/˘/˘/˘ |
| "Aestimetur laicus ut brutus, | 9 | ·······/˘ |
| Nam ad artem surdus est et mutus." | 11 | ······˘/··· |
| "Litteratos convocat decus virginale, | 13 | ············· |
| Laicorum execrat pectus bestiale." | 11 | ······/˘··· |
| "O clerici dilecti, | 7 | ······· |
| Discite vitare | 4 | ···· |
| Tabernam horribilem, | 7 | ······· |
| Qui cupitis regnare; | 6 | ······ |
| Nec audeant vos rustici | 7 | ······· |
| Plagis verberare! | 5 | ····· |
| "Rusticus dum se | 6 | ·····/ |
| Sentit ebriatum, | 5 | ····· |
| Clericum non reputat | 7 | ······· |
| Militem armatum. | 6 | ······ |
| Vere plane consulo | 5 | ····· |
| Ut abstineatis, | 5 | ····· |
| Nec unquam cum rusticis | 7 | ······· |
| Tabernam ineatis." | 6 | ······ |
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