Later Poems
When Tulips BloomThe Whip-Poor-WillThe Lily of YorrowThe VeeryThe Song-SparrowThe Maryland Yellow-ThroatA November DaisyThe Angler's ReveilleThe Ruby-Crowned KingletSchoolIndian SummerSpring in the NorthSpring in the SouthA Noon SongLight Between the TreesThe Hermit ThrushTurn o' the TideSierra MadreThe Grand CanyonThe Heavenly Hills of HollandFlood-Tide of FlowersGod of the Open Air
Words in this poem
- veery n.
- An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
- reveille n.
- The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. [F. réveil, fr. réveiller to awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistak]
- kinglet n.
- A little king; a weak or insignificant king. Carlyle.
- sierra n.
- A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada. [Sp., properly, a saw, fr. L. serra a saw. See Serrate.]
- canyon n.
- The English form of the Spanish word Cañon.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Later Poems is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke, Project Gutenberg ebook #16229; 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 Van Dyke, Later Poems, in The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1925), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #16229, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/van-dyke-poems/later-poems.html, id L22735.
Form and metre
Later Poems is 22 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic dimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 85%).
See other poems in iambic dimeter.
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.
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 dimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| When Tulips Bloom | 4 | ·/˘· |
| The Whip-Poor-Will | 4 | ···· |
| The Lily of Yorrow | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| The Veery | 3 | ·/˘ |
| The Song-Sparrow | 4 | ··/˘ |
| The Maryland Yellow-Throat | 7 | ·/˘˘/˘· |
| A November Daisy | 6 | ·˘/˘/˘ |
| The Angler's Reveille | 6 | ·/˘˘/˘ |
| The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet | 6 | ·/˘·/˘ |
| School | 1 | · |
| Indian Summer | 5 | /˘˘/˘ |
| Spring in the North | 4 | ···· |
| Spring in the South | 4 | ···· |
| A Noon Song | 3 | ··· |
| Light Between the Trees | 5 | ····· |
| The Hermit Thrush | 4 | ·/˘· |
| Turn o' the Tide | 4 | ···· |
| Sierra Madre | 5 | ˘/˘/· |
| The Grand Canyon | 4 | ··/˘ |
| The Heavenly Hills of Holland | 8 | ·/˘˘··/˘ |
| Flood-Tide of Flowers | 5 | ···/˘ |
| God of the Open Air | 6 | ···/˘· |
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