Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia, S.C III
Not all the darkness of the landCan hide the lifted eye and hand;Nor need the clanging conflict cease,To make Thee hear our cries for peace.
About this text
Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia, S.C III is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir, Project Gutenberg ebook #845; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Henry Timrod, Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia, S.C III, in Poems (1860–1867), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #845, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/timrod-poems/hymn-sung-at-a-sacred-concert-at-columbia-s-c-iii.html, id L10503.
Form and metre
Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia, S.C III is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets: octosyllabic couplets. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter. 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 8.2 syllables.
See other poems in octosyllabic couplets, 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 AABB landA · handA · ceaseB · peaceB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Not all the darkness of the land | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Can hide the lifted eye and hand; | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Nor need the clanging conflict cease, | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| To make Thee hear our cries for peace. | 9 | ····/˘··· |
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