Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's forty-four love sonnets, in the Petrarchan form: an octave rhyming ABBAABBA and a sestet CDCDCD.
Measured across the book
Across its 616 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 96% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.06 times what shuffling the words would give (0.36 observed against 0.34 expected). 14% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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Public domain. Text from Sonnets from the Portuguese, Project Gutenberg ebook #2002. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.