Immured in sense, with fivefold bonds confined,
Immured in sense, with fivefold bonds confined,Rest we content if whispers from the starsIn waftings of the incalculable windCome blown at midnight through our prison-bars.
Words in this poem
- fivefold a.
- In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
- incalculable a.
- Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great. [Pref. in- not + calculable: cf. F. incalculable.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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Immured in sense, with fivefold bonds confined, is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of William Watson, Project Gutenberg ebook #13179; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
Immured in sense, with fivefold bonds confined, is 4 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABAB. 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.
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 ABAB confinedA · starsB · windA · barsB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Immured in sense, with fivefold bonds confined, | 10 | ·····/··˘/ |
| Rest we content if whispers from the stars | 10 | ··˘/·/˘··· |
| In waftings of the incalculable wind | 10 | ·/˘··˘/˘˘· |
| Come blown at midnight through our prison-bars. | 10 | ···/··//˘· |
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