Miscellaneous Poems
The Lost GardenArt and HeartMockeryAs by FireIf I Should DieMésallianceResponseDroughtThe CreedProgressMy FriendCreationRed CarnationsLife is Too ShortA SculptorBeyondThe Saddest HourShow Me the WayMy HeritageResolveAt EleusisCourageSolitudeThe Year Outgrows the SpringThe Beautiful Land of NodThe TigerOnly a Simple RhymeI Will Be Worthy of ItSonnetRegretLet Me Lean HardPenaltySunsetThe Wheel of the BreastA MeetingEarnestnessA PictureTwin-BornFloodsA Fable
Words in this poem
- sculptor n.
- One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture. [L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum, to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. sculpteur.]
- heritage a.
- That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. [OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage, eritage, F. héritage, fr. hériter to inherit, LL. heriditare. See Hereditable.]
- sonnet n.
- A short poem, -- usually amatory. [F., fr. It. sonetto, fr. suono a sound, a song, fr. L. sonus a sound. See Sound noise.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Miscellaneous Poems is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems of Passion, Project Gutenberg ebook #16776; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Miscellaneous Poems, in Poems of Passion (1883), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #16776, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/wilcox-passion/miscellaneous-poems.html, id L22137.
Form and metre
Miscellaneous Poems is 40 lines in a single stanza. The metre is trochaic dimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 83%).
See other poems in trochaic 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.
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 ---------------------------AAA--A------- garden · heart · mockery · fire · die · mésalliance · response · drought · creed · progress · friend · creation · carnations · short · sculptor · beyond · hour · way · heritage · resolve · eleusis · courage · solitude · spring · nod · tiger · rhyme · itA · sonnetA · regretA · hard · penalty · sunsetA · breast · meeting · earnestness · picture · born · floods · fable
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 trochaic dimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Garden | 4 | ··/˘ |
| Art and Heart | 3 | ··· |
| Mockery | 3 | /˘˘ |
| As by Fire | 4 | ··/˘ |
| If I Should Die | 4 | ···· |
| Mésalliance | 3 | ··· |
| Response | 2 | ˘/ |
| Drought | 1 | · |
| The Creed | 2 | ·· |
| Progress | 2 | /· |
| My Friend | 2 | ·· |
| Creation | 3 | ˘/˘ |
| Red Carnations | 4 | ·˘/˘ |
| Life is Too Short | 4 | ···· |
| A Sculptor | 3 | ·/˘ |
| Beyond | 2 | ·· |
| The Saddest Hour | 5 | ·/˘/˘ |
| Show Me the Way | 4 | ···· |
| My Heritage | 4 | ·/˘˘ |
| Resolve | 2 | ˘/ |
| At Eleusis | 4 | ···· |
| Courage | 2 | /˘ |
| Solitude | 3 | /˘· |
| The Year Outgrows the Spring | 6 | ···/·· |
| The Beautiful Land of Nod | 7 | ·/˘˘··· |
| The Tiger | 3 | ·/˘ |
| Only a Simple Rhyme | 6 | /˘·/˘· |
| I Will Be Worthy of It | 7 | ···/˘·· |
| Sonnet | 2 | /˘ |
| Regret | 2 | ˘/ |
| Let Me Lean Hard | 4 | ···· |
| Penalty | 3 | /˘˘ |
| Sunset | 2 | /· |
| The Wheel of the Breast | 5 | ····· |
| A Meeting | 3 | ·/˘ |
| Earnestness | 3 | /˘˘ |
| A Picture | 3 | ·/˘ |
| Twin-Born | 2 | ·· |
| Floods | 1 | · |
| A Fable | 3 | ·/˘ |
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