The Tale of the Argonauts
Jason's voyage for the Golden Fleece and Medea's love for him, the Hellenistic epic Virgil drew on for Dido, in Way's long rhymed lines.
Measured across the book
Across its 5,834 lines, 78% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 77% to 78%). Alliteration runs at 1.05 times what shuffling the words would give (0.47 observed against 0.45 expected). 10% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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Public domain. Text from The Tale of the Argonauts, Project Gutenberg ebook #64235. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.