Poems (1790)
Joanna Baillie's first book, the country poems Wordsworth read before Lyrical Ballads.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,713 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 97% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 0.98 times what shuffling the words would give (0.32 observed against 0.33 expected). 12% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
A Winter Dayiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 296 linesA Summer Dayiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 306 linesPart Icommon measure · ABAB · 112 linesPart IIcommon measure · ABAB · 108 linesPart IIIcommon measure · ABAB · 108 linesA Reverieiambic pentameter · AABB · 92 linesA Disappointmentiambic pentameter · AABB · 87 linesA Lamentationiambic pentameter · AABB · 102 linesAn Address to the Musesiambic tetrameter · AABBCC · 150 linesA Melancholy Lover's Farewell to His Mistressiambic tetrameter · AABB · 55 linesA Cheerful Tempered Lover's Farewell to His Mistressiambic tetrameter · AABB · 52 linesA Proud Lover's Farewell to His Mistressiambic tetrameter · AABB · 42 linesA Poet, Or, Sound-Hearted Lover's Farewell to His Mistressiambic tetrameter · AABB · 40 linesSomewhat After the Style of Our Old English Balladscommon measure · ABAB · 164 linesThunderiambic pentameter · AABB · 110 linesWindiambic pentameter · AABB · 124 linesA Fearful Mindiambic pentameter · AABB · 50 linesA Discontented Mindiambic pentameter · AABB · 50 linesA Sorrowful Mindiambic pentameter · AABB · 52 linesA Joyful Mindiambic pentameter · AABB · 98 linesTo Feariambic tetrameter · AABB · 80 linesSomewhat in Imitation of the Poems of Ossianunrhymed · 315 linesA Mother to Her Waking Infantiambic tetrameter · AABBCC · 50 linesA Child to His Sick Grandfatheriambic tetrameter · AABBCC · 48 linesThe Horse and His Rideriambic pentameter · 22 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters, Project Gutenberg ebook #14617. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.