The Consolation of Philosophy
The verse metra of the Consolation: "I that with youthful heat did verses write", the hymn "O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas", and the Orpheus poem of Book III.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,903 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.17 times what shuffling the words would give (0.17 observed against 0.14 expected). 15% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
H.F.S. E.K.R.iambic tetrameter · 4 linesIllustrative Worksiambic tetrameter · 10 linesFrom the Same to the Sameiambic tetrameter · 5 linesLiber I Itrochaic hexameter · 22 linesContaining His Complaint and Miseriesiambic pentameter · 332 linesBook II IIiambic tetrameter · 48 linesBook II IIIiambic tetrameter · 36 linesBook II IViambic tetrameter · 44 linesBook II Viambic tetrameter · 58 linesBook II VIiambic pentameter · AABB · 34 linesBook II VIIiambic tetrameter · 56 linesBook II VIIIiambic tetrameter · 43 linesBook III Iiambic tetrameter · 26 linesBook III IIiambic pentameter · 80 linesBook III IViambic pentameter · 27 linesBook III Viambic trimeter · 22 linesBook III VIIiambic tetrameter · 30 linesBook III VIIIiambic tetrameter · 44 linesBook III IXiambic hexameter · 60 linesBook III Xiambic pentameter · 36 linesBook III XIiambic pentameter · 33 linesBook III XIIiambic tetrameter · 118 linesBook IV Iiambic tetrameter · 52 linesBook IV IIiambic trimeter · 30 linesBook IV IIIiambic tetrameter · 76 linesBook IV IViambic pentameter · 24 linesBook IV Viambic pentameter · 40 linesBook IV VIiambic tetrameter · 112 linesBook IV VIIiambic tetrameter · 61 linesBook V Iiambic hexameter · 24 linesBook V IIiambic trimeter · 29 linesBook V IIIiambic pentameter · 61 linesBook V IViambic tetrameter · 80 linesBook V Viambic heptameter · 30 linesSymmachi Versvsiambic tetrameter · 6 linesEpigram by Symmachustrochaic dimeter · 110 lines
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