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Ode Ix. The Author Apologizes To A Lady, For His Being A Little Man
Ode Ix. The Author Apologizes To A Lady, For His Being A Little Man
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Poetic form
Metrical notation:
a ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′/
b ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′/ Symbols:
a ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′/
b ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′/ ˘ metrically non-prominent
c ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′/ ′ metrically prominent
(primary)
c ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′| ˘ ′/ ` metrically prominent
(secondary)
Metrical foot type: iambic (˘′) | metrical foot boundary
/ metrical line boundary
Metrical foot number: tetrameter (4 feet); pentameter (5 || caesura
feet); hexameter (6 feet)
Stanza: sestet (6 lines)
Syllable pattern: 8/10/8/10/10/12
Rhyme scheme: ababcc
Rhyme (stanza position): tail (aabccb)
Source edition
Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771. Poems on several occasions: By Christopher Smart,
A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge. London: printed for the author, by W.
Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard,
MDCCLII., 1752, pp. 23-24. [16],230p.,plates; 4⁰. (ESTC T42626; OTA
K041581.000)
Editorial principles
The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization
of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all
editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic
text originally produced by the ECCO-TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to
conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in
Libraries version 3.0.