Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers
W. E. Aytoun's Jacobite ballads, recited in Scottish schoolrooms for a century.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,788 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 96% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 1.10 times what shuffling the words would give (0.23 observed against 0.21 expected). 32% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Edinburgh After Floddentrochaic tetrameter · 401 linesThe Execution of Montroseiambic tetrameter · 224 lines"The Execution of Montrose"iambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 16 linesThe Heart of the Brucecommon measure · 236 linesThe Burial March of Dundeetrochaic tetrameter · 200 linesThe Widow of Glencoetrochaic tetrameter · 146 linesThe Island of the Scotsiambic tetrameter · 269 linesCharles Edward at Versailles4 linesOn the Anniversary of Cullodentrochaic tetrameter · 244 lines"Charles Edward at Versailles"iambic pentameter · 42 linesThe Old Scottish Cavalieriambic tetrameter · 81 linesBlind Old Miltoniambic pentameter · 184 linesHermotimustrochaic pentameter · ABABCCB · 161 linesOenonetrochaic tetrameter · 88 linesThe Buried Flowertrochaic tetrameter · 204 linesWritten in a Roman Fortification in Bavariaiambic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 64 linesDanube and the Euxinetrochaic tetrameter · 68 linesFrom the German of Freiligrathiambic tetrameter · 108 linesFrom the German of Wilhelm Müllertrochaic tetrameter · 16 linesFrom the Romaiciambic tetrameter · 32 lines
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