{"id":"01KG8B57AZ4FJQSCWW3JE46CFM","cid":"bafkreicr6yfk65l4p3k4hudm3i62yjf2pfmzgrusvrs4srqn4qtkzu6s2y","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibtgcnpxo3vfehqqrmaw3n7pygpi6oztne3nmh22fylt2qpveokoe","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0158.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643971-bswikz017fq","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0158.jpg","page_number":158,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":534753,"text":"scvcn-linc\nstanza.\n2 2 LUCRECE\nof our ancient proportions used by any rimer writing any-\nthing historical or grave poem ', and he refers to Chaucer's\nTroylus and Crisyde and Lydgate's Fall of Princes by way of\nproof tliat ' the staffe of seven verses was most usual with\nour ancient makers '. The rimes, he points out, were capable\nof seven variations. Shakespeare followed the customary\nscheme which Chaucer had employed (ababbcc). Putten-\nham found fault with those who close the stanza with an\nindependent couplet < concording with no other verse that\nwent before ', but he finally admits that the < double cadence\nin the last two verses serves the ear well enough '. The\ncomment well applies to Shakespeare's prosody.\nSpenser's 0( English poems in the metre which were written\nshortly before Shakespeare penned his Lucrece^ the most\nmemorable is Spenser's l{uines of Time^ published in 1^90,\nin which Shakespeare's cadences seem almost precisely anti-\ncipated. The following is a good example of the stanza in\nSpenser's hands : —\nBut Fame with golden wings aloft doth fiie,\nAbove the reach of ruinous decay,\nAnd with brave plumes doth beate the azure skie,\nAdmir'd of base-borne men from far away :\nThen, who so will with vertuous deeds assay\nTo mount to heaven, on Pegasus must ride,\nAnd with sweete Poets verse be giorifide.'\nGreene's\nji\nMaidens Dreame^ An\nelegy on Sir Christopher\nHatton^\n' Spenser employed the seven-line stanza with a different scheme of\nrhyming (ababcbc) in his Bapknaida^ iTpi? l^ut in his Hymttes^ ITP*^? ^^\nreturned to the Shakespearean plan. Among the Elizabethan poets who\nused the seven-line stanza in long poems immediately after Lucrece were\n(Sir) John Davis in his Orchestra^ ^TP+i Barnfield in Complaivt of Chastltle\nand Shepherds Content^ 'T^+j Drayton in Mortimer'tados^ 'TS?^? ^ncl parts of\nUarmonie of the Churchy '^')^^' At a little later date Nicholas Breton\nemployed it constantly ; cf. his Fasqv'ils Passe and Vasseth not^ i()00 • 'Longing\nof a Blessed Hearty \\6o\\ j Fasqvils Mad Cappe, i6z6.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.971Z","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":"2026-01-30T20:57:47.103Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:37.541Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}