Young Adventure
Stephen Vincent Benét's first book of poems, written at twenty.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,797 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.06 times what shuffling the words would give (0.35 observed against 0.34 expected). 20% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Prefatory Noteiambic pentameter · 79 linesThe Songcommon measure · 374 linesMiscellaneousiambic pentameter · AABB · 30 linesThe City Revisitediambic tetrameter · 55 linesGoing Back to Schooliambic pentameter · 31 linesNos Immortalesiambic pentameter · 14 linesYoung Bloodiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 46 linesThe Quality of Courageiambic tetrameter · 184 linesCampus Sonnetsiambic pentameter · 56 linesAlexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capuaiambic pentameter · ABBACC · 60 linesThe Breaking Pointiambic tetrameter · 35 linesLonely Burialiambic pentameter · 14 linesDinner in a Quick Lunch Roomiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Planting of the Hempiambic tetrameter · AABB · 52 linesThe Growing of the Hempiambic pentameter · AABB · 49 linesThe Using of the Hempiambic tetrameter · AABB · 52 linesPoor Devil!iambic pentameter · 24 linesGhosts of a Lunatic Asylumiambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe White Peacock Iiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 40 linesThe White Peacock IIiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 86 linesColorsiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEAEAFF · 14 linesA Minor Poetiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Lover in Helliambic pentameter · unrhymed · 66 linesWinged Maniambic heptameter · AABB · 37 linesMusiciambic pentameter · AABB · 27 linesThe Innovatoriambic tetrameter · ABABA · 20 linesLove in TwilightABAB · 20 linesThe Fiddling Woodiambic pentameter · ABCBAC · 54 linesPortrait of a Boyiambic pentameter · 24 linesPortrait of a Babyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 55 linesThe General Publiciambic pentameter · unrhymed · 42 linesRoad and Hillsunrhymed · 57 linesElegy for an Enemydactylic dimeter · 56 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Young Adventure: A Book of Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #312. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.