{"id":"01KG8B0SY79R0BHA7S1HMFH2NS","cid":"bafkreiantqv2tsb4fx63gzob7b5isryuj2oimbwuezg3vk3g5o4a2jp6ru","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiay7t22ebphpeqfgl5vayuethppa3cg5xdyjgueth6mmre45wi2km","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0041.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806521474-xmce5rt36l","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0041.jpg","page_number":41,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":602330,"text":"VENUS\nAND\nADONIS\n^y\ndignity.\nShakespeare's\ngenius\ntransmuted\nmost\nof\nhis\ningre-\ndients and\nfused\nthem\ninto\na\nrich\nand\nconsistent\nwork\nof\nart.\nBut\nthe\nconstituent\nelements\ndeserve\ncareful\nattention.\nThe\nchoice of\nmetre\nis\na\nfinal\ntestimony\nto the\nyoung\nauthor's\nreadiness\nto\naccept\naccessible\nguidance.\nThe\nsixain or\nsix-\nlined\nstanza,\nriming\nababcc,\nwhich\nShakespeare\nadopted,\nwas\namong\nthe\ncommonest\nof\nall\nforms\nof\nverse in both\nEnglish and\nFrench\npoetry of\nthe\nsixteenth\ncentury.\nGeorgeGascoigne,\nin\nhis Certayne\nnotes\nof\nInstruction\nconcerning the\nmaking\nof\nverse\nor\nryme\nin\nEnglish (if7f),\nwrites\nfamiliarly\nof\n<sixaines'\nas\nthe\nfitting\nvehicle <for\nshorte\nphantazies'.\nPuttenham\ndescribed\nthe\n'stafFe\nof\nsixe\nverses'\nas\n<mostusual'\nand\n<\nvery pleasant\nto\nth'eare'.'\nThe\nmost\nnotable\nexample\nof\nthe\nemployment\nof\nthe\nsixain\nbefore\nShakespeare's\nFenus and Adonis\nis\noffered\nby\nEdmund\nSpenser's\nAstrophel^\na\npastoral\nelegy\nupon\nthe\ndeath of.\n.\n.\nSir\nPhilip Sidney^\nwhich\nwas written\nin\nij8<^,\nand\nafter\nwide\ncirculation\nin\nmanuscriptwas printed\nfor\nthe\nfirst\ntime\nin\n15-95-.\nThe\npoetic\nlament\nby\nthe\nCountess\nof\nPembroke,\nSidney's\nsister,\nwhich\nis\nappended\nto\nSpenser's Astrophel,\nis\nalso in the\nsame metre\n;\nso,\ntoo,\nis\nSpenser's\n<Teares of\nthe\nMuses\n'\nin\nhis\nComplaints,\ni\nj-91.\nA\nlonger\neffort\nin the\nsix-line\nstanza\nis, as\nwe\nhave\nseen,\nthe\nnarrative\npoem\nby\nThomas Lodge\nentitled\nScillaes\nMetamor-\nphosis: Enterlaced\nwith\nthe\nu?\nfortunate\nhue\nof\nGlaucus,\nwhich\nappeared in\n15-89.\nRobert Greene penned numerous\nshort\npoems\nin\nsixains,\nand\nNicholas Breton published\nin\n15-92 in\nthe six-lined stanza a\nlong allegory together with\na religious^\nCf.\nPuttcnham's\nThe Arte\nof English\nVoesie\n{\\<^%^\\\nBook\nii,\nChap,\nii,\n'Of Proportion\nin\nStaffe.'\nPuttenham\nalso\nnotes\nof\n«\nthe\nstafFe of\nsixe verses\n*\nthat\nit\n'\nalso\nserueth for a greater\ncomplement\nthen the\ninferiour\nstaues,\nwhich maketh him more\ncommonly\nto be\nvsed\n'. Chaucer\ntwice uses the\nsix-\nlined stanza\nwith an exceptional\nscheme\nof rime,\nonce\nin the\nEnvoy\nto the\nshort\npoem Womanly\nNoblesse^\nwhere\nthe rimes run aba\nbaa, and again\nin\nthe\nEnvoy\nto\nThe\nClerkes Tale^\nwhere\nthe\nrimes\nrun\nababcb.\nE 2","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:21.474Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:55:22.311Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:55:25.059Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}