Lady Geraldine's Courtship, and Other Poems
The 1844 Poems: "The Cry of the Children", "Lady Geraldine's Courtship".
Measured across the book
Across its 4,812 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.10 times what shuffling the words would give (0.32 observed against 0.29 expected). 30% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Quarlesiambic trimeter · 244 linesShakespeareiambic tetrameter · 544 linesThe Romaunt of the Pageiambic tetrameter · 349 linesFirst Partanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 105 linesFirst Angeliambic tetrameter · 11 linesSecond Angel10 linesEvil Spiritiambic heptameter · AABB · 88 linesThird Partanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 140 linesFourth Partiambic heptameter · AABB · 42 linesA Romance of the Gangesiambic tetrameter · 213 linesRhyme of the Duchess May24 linesThe Rhyme438 linesThe Romance of the Swan's Nest4 linesWESTWOOD's Beads from a Rosarytrochaic tetrameter · 102 linesBertha in the Lanetrochaic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 237 linesLady Geraldine's Courtship: A Romance of the Agetrochaic octameter · 404 linesConclusiontrochaic octameter · 46 linesThe Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Pointiambic tetrameter · ABABCCB · 253 linesThe Cry of the Children160 linesA Child Asleeptrochaic tetrameter · ABABB · 60 linesThe Fourfold Aspecttrochaic tetrameter · 134 linesNighttrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 18 linesThe Merry Mantrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 99 linesEarth and Her Praiserstrochaic tetrameter · 229 linesMILTON's Hymn on the Nativityiambic pentameter · 181 linesAn Islandiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 180 linesSynesiusiambic tetrameter · 226 linesThe Child-Friend of Goetheiambic tetrameter · 54 linesMan and Naturetrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 35 linesA Sea-Side Walkiambic pentameter · 35 linesAffectionately Inscribed to M. E. Hiambic tetrameter · AABBA · 45 linesReferring to Her Monody on the Poetessiambic heptameter · 39 linesL. E. L.'s Last Questioniambic pentameter · 63 lines
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