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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside (1721–1770) · 1744

Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter · 8,361 lines in 66 sections

The Pleasures of Imagination, the eighteenth century's philosophical blank verse.

Measured across the book

Across its 8,361 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 96% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.96 times what shuffling the words would give (0.27 observed against 0.29 expected). 6% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

Contents

The Life of Akensideiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 17 lines Ode V. on Love of Praise4 lines Book Iiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 604 lines Book IIiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 771 lines Book IIIiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 633 lines Endnote Mmiambic pentameter · 8 lines Book I: 1757iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 734 lines Book II: 1765iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 705 lines Book III: 1770iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 670 lines On the Winter-Solstice. 1740iambic tetrameter · 100 lines For the Winter Solstice, December 11, 1740. As Originally Writteniambic tetrameter · 60 lines To a Friend, Unsuccessful in Loveiambic tetrameter · ABABCCB · 63 lines Affected Indifference. To the Sameiambic tetrameter · 20 lines Against Suspicioniambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 66 lines Hymn to Cheerfulnessiambic tetrameter · AABB · 162 lines On the Use of Poetryiambic tetrameter · 98 lines Iii.—1iambic tetrameter · ABABCDCDC · 9 lines Iii.—2iambic tetrameter · ABABCDCDC · 9 lines Iii.—3iambic pentameter · ABABCCDEED · 10 lines To Curio. 1744iambic pentameter · ABABCCDEED · 160 lines To the Museiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDDD · 27 lines On Love. To a Friendiambic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 70 lines To Sir Francis Henry Drake, Baronetiambic tetrameter · ABABCCDEED · 140 lines Iii.—1iambic tetrameter · ABABCCDEED · 10 lines Iii.—2iambic tetrameter · ABABCCDEED · 10 lines Iii.—3iambic tetrameter · ABABCCDEED · 40 lines To the Honourable Charles Townshend; from the Countryiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 48 lines To the Evening Stariambic tetrameter · ABACCB · 78 lines To Caleb Hardinge, M. Diambic tetrameter · 50 lines On a Sermon Against Glory. 1747iambic tetrameter · 98 lines Iii.—1iambic tetrameter · 10 lines Iii.—2iambic tetrameter · AABB · 10 lines Iii.—3iambic pentameter · 140 lines The Remonstrance of Shakspeareiambic pentameter · AABB · 104 lines To Sleepiambic pentameter · AABCCBDEDE · 60 lines To the Cuckoo95 lines Iii.—1AABB · 10 lines Iii.—2iambic pentameter · AABB · 10 lines Iii.—3iambic pentameter · ABBACDDEEC · 100 lines On Love of Praiseiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 24 lines To William Hall, Esquire; with the Works of Chaulieuiambic tetrameter · 107 lines Iii.—1iambic tetrameter · AABB · 9 lines Iii.—2iambic pentameter · AABB · 9 lines Iii.—3iambic pentameter · 12 lines Ode VIIIiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 30 lines At Studytrochaic tetrameter · AABCCB · 30 lines To Thomas Edwards, Esq.; on the Late Edition of Mr. Pope's Works. 1751iambic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 56 lines To the Country Gentlemen of England. 1758iambic pentameter · ABABCCDEED · 170 lines On Recovering from a Fit of Sickness; in the Country. 1758iambic tetrameter · ABBCADDC · 80 lines To the Author of Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg. 1751iambic pentameter · ABABCCDEED · 40 lines The Complaintiambic tetrameter · 21 lines On Domestic Manners (Unfinished.)ABBACDDEEC · 40 lines Book First: Ode Xviii, Stanza Ii.—2iambic pentameter · 17 lines Hymn to the Naiads. 1746iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 330 lines For a Grottoiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 18 lines For a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstockiambic pentameter · 110 lines For a Column at Runnymedeiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 16 lines The Wood Nymphiambic pentameter · 30 lines An Epistle to Curioiambic pentameter · AABB · 348 lines In Imitation Op Spenser's Style and Stanzaiambic pentameter · 92 lines A Fableiambic pentameter · AABB · 120 lines The Poet. A Rhapsodyiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 176 lines A British Philippiciambic pentameter · unrhymed · 175 lines Hymn to Scienceiambic pentameter · AABCCB · 230 lines July 1740iambic tetrameter · 30 lines Songcommon measure · 28 lines

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