Phormio: Act the Fourth: Scene II
The money's got for Phaedria: all is hush'd:And Phanium is not to depart as yet.What more then? where will all this end at last?--Alas! you're sticking in the same mire still:You've only chang'd hands, Geta. The disasterThat hung but now directly over you,Delay perhaps will bring more heavy on you.You're quite beset, unless you look about.--Now then I'll home; to lesson Phanium,That she mayn't stand in fear of Phormio,Nor dread this conf'rence with Nausistrata. (Exit.
Words in this poem
- depart v. i.
- To part; to divide; to separate. [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. départir to divide, distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart,]
- disaster n.
- An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent. [F. désastre; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + astre star, fr. L. astrum; a word of astrological origin. See Aster, Astral, Star.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Phormio: Act the Fourth: Scene II is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Comedies of Terence, Project Gutenberg ebook #22695; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Terence, Phormio: Act the Fourth: Scene II, in The Comedies of Terence (1765), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22695, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/terence-comedies/phormio-act-the-fourth-scene-ii.html, id L25906.
Form and metre
Phormio: Act the Fourth: Scene II is 11 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 89%).
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 -----AAB--B hush'd · yet · last · still · disaster · youA · youA · aboutB · phanium · phormio · exitB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The money's got for Phaedria: all is hush'd: | 10 | ·/˘······· |
| And Phanium is not to depart as yet. | 10 | ······˘/·· |
| What more then? where will all this end at last? | 10 | ·········· |
| --Alas! you're sticking in the same mire still: | 10 | ˘/·/˘····· |
| You've only chang'd hands, Geta. The disaster | 11 | ·/˘·····˘/˘ |
| That hung but now directly over you, | 10 | ····˘/˘··· |
| Delay perhaps will bring more heavy on you. | 11 | ˘/˘/···/˘·· |
| You're quite beset, unless you look about. | 10 | ··˘/······ |
| --Now then I'll home; to lesson Phanium, | 9 | ·····/˘·· |
| That she mayn't stand in fear of Phormio, | 9 | ········· |
| Nor dread this conf'rence with Nausistrata. (Exit. | 12 | ··········/˘ |
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