Six Days of the Week
Little RiversFisherman's LuckDays OffOut-of-Doors in the Holy Land
The Ruling PassionThe Blue FlowerThe Unknown QuantityThe Valley of Vision
About this text
Six Days of the Week 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, Six Days of the Week, in The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1925), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #16229, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/van-dyke-poems/six-days-of-the-week.html, id L22732.
Form and metre
Six Days of the Week is 8 lines in 2 stanzas of 4 lines each. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Little Rivers | 4 | /˘/˘ |
| Fisherman's Luck | 4 | /˘˘· |
| Days Off | 2 | ·· |
| Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| The Ruling Passion | 5 | ·/˘/˘ |
| The Blue Flower | 4 | ··/˘ |
| The Unknown Quantity | 6 | ·˘//˘˘ |
| The Valley of Vision | 6 | ·/˘·/˘ |
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