To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name”)
Sainted Juliet! dearest name!If to love be life alone,Divinest Juliet,I love thee, and live; and yetLove unreturned is like the fragrant flameFolding the slaughter of the sacrificeOffered to gods upon an altarthrone;My heart is lighted at thine eyes,Changed into fire, and blown about with sighs.
Words in this poem
- sainted a.
- Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name”) is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Project Gutenberg ebook #8601; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Alfred Tennyson, To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name”), in The Early Poems (1830–1842), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #8601, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/tennyson-early-poems/to-sainted-juliet-dearest-name.html, id L20763.
Form and metre
To —— (“Sainted Juliet! dearest name”) is 9 lines in a single stanza. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter.
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 ABCCA-BDD nameA · aloneB · julietC · yetC · flameA · sacrifice · altarthroneB · eyesD · sighsD
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sainted Juliet! dearest name! | 8 | /˘/˘·/˘· |
| If to love be life alone, | 7 | ·····˘/ |
| Divinest Juliet, | 6 | ˘/˘/˘· |
| I love thee, and live; and yet | 7 | ······· |
| Love unreturned is like the fragrant flame | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| Folding the slaughter of the sacrifice | 10 | /˘·/˘··/˘· |
| Offered to gods upon an altarthrone; | 10 | /˘········ |
| My heart is lighted at thine eyes, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Changed into fire, and blown about with sighs. | 10 | ···/······ |
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