The Brothers: Act the Fifth: Scene III
GETA (to SOSTRATA within). Madam, I'm going to look after them,That they may call the bride immediately.--But here is Demea. Save you!
DEM. Oh! your name?
DEM. Geta, I this day have found youTo be a fellow of uncommon worth:For sure that servant's faith is well approv'dWho holds his master's interest at heart,As I perceiv'd that you did, Geta! wherefore,Soon as occasion offers, I'll reward you.--I am endeavoring to be affable,And not without success. (Aside.)
GETA. 'Tis kind in youTo think of your poor slave, Sir.
DEM. (aside.) First of allI court the mob, and win them by degrees.
Words in this poem
- wherefore adv.
- For which reason; so; -- used relatively. [Where + for.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Brothers: Act the Fifth: Scene III 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, The Brothers: Act the Fifth: Scene III, in The Comedies of Terence (1765), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #22695, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/terence-comedies/the-brothers-act-the-fifth-scene-iii.html, id L25851.
Form and metre
The Brothers: Act the Fifth: Scene III is 16 lines in 5 stanzas. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 85%).
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.
- 3 A----A-- youA · worth · approv'd · heart · wherefore · youA · affable · aside
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GETA (to SOSTRATA within). Madam, I'm going to look after them, | 17 | ········/˘·/····· |
| That they may call the bride immediately. | 11 | ······˘/˘˘˘ |
| --But here is Demea. Save you! | 7 | ······· |
| DEM. Oh! your name? | 4 | ···· |
| DEM. Geta, I this day have found you | 9 | ········· |
| To be a fellow of uncommon worth: | 10 | ···/˘·˘/˘· |
| For sure that servant's faith is well approv'd | 10 | ···/˘···˘/ |
| Who holds his master's interest at heart, | 9 | ···/˘/˘·· |
| As I perceiv'd that you did, Geta! wherefore, | 11 | ··˘/·····/˘ |
| Soon as occasion offers, I'll reward you. | 11 | ··˘/˘/˘·˘/· |
| --I am endeavoring to be affable, | 11 | ··˘/˘˘··/˘˘ |
| And not without success. (Aside.) | 8 | ····˘/˘/ |
| GETA. 'Tis kind in you | 6 | ······ |
| To think of your poor slave, Sir. | 7 | ······· |
| DEM. (aside.) First of all | 6 | ·˘/··· |
| I court the mob, and win them by degrees. | 10 | ········˘/ |
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