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Metrical foot type: trochaic (+-)
Metrical foot number: tetrameter (4 feet) (catalectic)
Rhyme scheme: aabb
Rhyme (stanza position): pair (aabb)
Syllable pattern: 7.7.7.7
Stanza: quatrain (4 lines)
Notation symbols: | (foot boundary), || (caesura), / (metrical line boundary), + (metrically prominent), - (metrically non-prominent)
Metre: +-|+-|+-|+/ | Syllables: 7
Metre: +-|+-|+-|+/ | Syllables: 7
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Title/Paratext] "This and the following are [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1891.
"This and the following are Imitations from the Welsh, and were first published in the Notes at the end of Mason's edition."
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: English and Latin. Edited with an introduction, life, notes and a bibliography by John Bradshaw. The Aldine edition of the British poets series. London: George Bell and sons, 1891, 262.1.5 tusky] "In Webster's "Dictionary" another instance [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1891.
"In Webster's "Dictionary" another instance is given from Dryden:—
"The scar indented by the tusky boar.""The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: English and Latin. Edited with an introduction, life, notes and a bibliography by John Bradshaw. The Aldine edition of the British poets series. London: George Bell and sons, 1891, 262.
2.5 sullen] "sullen originally meant lonely (through [...]" J. Bradshaw, 1891.
"sullen originally meant lonely (through the French from the Lat. solus); hence gloomy; Milton applies it to a wintry day, and Gray follows him in speaking of the "sullen year," "Ode on Vicissitude," 21; "with sullen roar" he also takes from Milton:—
"I hear the far-off curfew sound,The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: English and Latin. Edited with an introduction, life, notes and a bibliography by John Bradshaw. The Aldine edition of the British poets series. London: George Bell and sons, 1891, 262.
Over some wide-watered shore,
Swinging slow with sullen roar."—Il Penseroso, 76."
Works cited
- The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: English and Latin. Edited with an introduction, life, notes and a bibliography by John Bradshaw. The Aldine edition of the British poets series. London: George Bell and sons, 1891.
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