The Minstrel and Other Poems
James Beattie's Minstrel, in Spenserian stanzas, on the growth of a poet's mind before Wordsworth.
Measured across the book
Across its 8,147 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.05 times what shuffling the words would give (0.35 observed against 0.33 expected). 7% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Life and Poetry of James Beattieiambic pentameter · 6 linesBook Iiambic pentameter · ABABBCBCC · 543 linesBook IIiambic pentameter · ABABBCBCC · 567 linesOde to Hope I. 1iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Hope I. 2iambic pentameter · ABBACDCDEFFE · 12 linesOde to Hope I. 3iambic tetrameter · 17 linesOde to Hope II. 1iambic pentameter · ABBACDCDEFFE · 12 linesOde to Hope II. 2iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Hope II. 3iambic tetrameter · 17 linesOde to Hope III. 1iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Hope III. 2iambic pentameter · ABBACDCDEFFE · 12 linesOde to Hope III. 3iambic tetrameter · 17 linesOde to Peace I. 1iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Peace I. 2iambic pentameter · ABABCCDDEFEF · 12 linesOde to Peace I. 3iambic pentameter · AABB · 12 linesOde to Peace II. 1iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Peace II. 2iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Peace II. 3iambic pentameter · AABB · 12 linesOde to Peace III. 1iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Peace III. 2iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Peace III. 3iambic pentameter · AABB · 12 linesOde to Peace IV. 1iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Peace IV. 2iambic pentameter · 12 linesOde to Peace IV. 3iambic pentameter · AABB · 12 linesOde on Lord Hay's Birthdayiambic tetrameter · ABABCCDEED · 100 linesThe Judgment Op Parisiambic pentameter · ABAB · 531 linesThe Triumph of Melancholyiambic pentameter · ABAB · 216 linesElegyiambic pentameter · ABAB · 44 linesWritten in the Year 1758iambic pentameter · AABB · 94 linesRetirement. 1758iambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 80 linesThe Hermitanapaestic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 48 linesOn (Written in 1765.)iambic pentameter · AABB · 146 linesThe Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes (From the "Pygmæo-Gerano-Machia" of Addison.)iambic pentameter · AABB · 214 linesA Fableiambic tetrameter · AABB · 244 linesA Fable (Written in 1757, and First Published in 1766.)iambic tetrameter · AABB · 114 linesIn Imitation of Shakspeare's "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind"iambic trimeter · AABCCB · 30 linesDressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes, Etciambic pentameter · 12 linesEpitaphiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesEpitaphiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesEpitaph, Intended for Himselfiambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Life of Robert Blairiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 24 linesThe Graveiambic pentameter · 905 linesWilliam Falconeriambic pentameter · AABB · 92 linesTime, About Four Days and a Halfiambic pentameter · AABB · 866 linesCanto IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 970 linesCanto III: The Time, About Seven Hours; from One Until Eight in the Morningiambic pentameter · AABB · 971 linesIn Which the Preceding Narrative Is Concludediambic pentameter · ABAB · 76 linesThe Demagogueiambic pentameter · 447 linesSacred to the Memory of His Royal Highness Frederic Prince of Walesiambic pentameter · AABB · 131 linesWritten Aboard the Royal Georgeiambic tetrameter · 235 linesA Balladiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 40 linesIn the Gentleman's Magazine Foe December Last, 1755, by I.W., a Sailoriambic pentameter · AABB · 40 linesFrom the Gentleman's Magazine, May 1759iambic pentameter · AABB · 50 lines
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Public domain. Text from The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes, Project Gutenberg ebook #8695. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.