Post by Alan on Apr 12, 2007 20:16:30 GMT
The Minuet (echo verse)
A Poem in which the last syllable or two of a main line is repeated. Perhaps
with different spellings or meanings, as if an echo: usually this echo will be
intended to a point under or beyond the syllable it mimics and will function as
an independant line of one or two syllables. Sometimes the word echo will
precede the repetition, lolike to identify the speaker in a play. Echo verse
can often serve an ironioc purpose, the meaning of the echo conflicting with
what the original sound means example 'know' echoded by 'no'. On the other hand
and echo poem can be used simply as another kind of rhyme. Not sure where to
post this information to so I left it with the poem. It seems as clear as mud
really to me but I had a have a go.
Silverlining
Example
Heaven
Oh who will show me those delights on high!
Echo I
Thou Echo, thou art mortal, all men know.
Echo No
Wert thou not born among the trees and leaves?
Echo Leaves
And are there any leaves, that still abide?
Echo Bide
What leaves are they? Impart the matter wholly.
Echo Holy
Are holy leaves the Echo then of blisse?
EchoYes
Then tell me, what is that supreme delight?
Echo Light
Light to the minde: what shall the will enjoy?
Echo Joy
But are there cares and businesse with the pleasure?
EchoLeisure
Light, joy and leisure; but shall they persever?
Echo Ever
George Herbert (1593-1633)
A Poem in which the last syllable or two of a main line is repeated. Perhaps
with different spellings or meanings, as if an echo: usually this echo will be
intended to a point under or beyond the syllable it mimics and will function as
an independant line of one or two syllables. Sometimes the word echo will
precede the repetition, lolike to identify the speaker in a play. Echo verse
can often serve an ironioc purpose, the meaning of the echo conflicting with
what the original sound means example 'know' echoded by 'no'. On the other hand
and echo poem can be used simply as another kind of rhyme. Not sure where to
post this information to so I left it with the poem. It seems as clear as mud
really to me but I had a have a go.
Silverlining
Example
Heaven
Oh who will show me those delights on high!
Echo I
Thou Echo, thou art mortal, all men know.
Echo No
Wert thou not born among the trees and leaves?
Echo Leaves
And are there any leaves, that still abide?
Echo Bide
What leaves are they? Impart the matter wholly.
Echo Holy
Are holy leaves the Echo then of blisse?
EchoYes
Then tell me, what is that supreme delight?
Echo Light
Light to the minde: what shall the will enjoy?
Echo Joy
But are there cares and businesse with the pleasure?
EchoLeisure
Light, joy and leisure; but shall they persever?
Echo Ever
George Herbert (1593-1633)
