Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
A teaching selection: "Rabbi Ben Ezra", "My Last Duchess", "Fra Lippo Lippi".
Measured across the book
Across its 7,997 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 91% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.22 times what shuffling the words would give (0.40 observed against 0.32 expected). 26% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
"Heap Cassia, Sandal-Buds, and Stripes"iambic tetrameter · ABABBCCC · 16 lines"Over the Sea Our Galleys Went"iambic tetrameter · 73 lines"Thus the Mayne Glideth"trochaic tetrameter · 29 linesMarching AlongAABBCC · 25 linesGive a Rousetrochaic tetrameter · 20 linesBoot and SaddleAABB · 16 linesThe Lost Leaderdactylic tetrameter · 32 lines"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"anapaestic tetrameter · AABBCC · 60 linesThe Flower's Nametrochaic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 48 linesMeeting at Nightiambic pentameter · 12 linesParting at MorningAABB · 4 linesEvelyn Hopeiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 56 linesLove Among the Ruinstrochaic dimeter · AABBCCDDEEFF · 84 linesUp at a Villa—Down in the City (As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality)85 linesA Toccata of Galuppi'strochaic octameter · AABB · 57 linesOld Pictures in Florenceiambic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 288 lines"De Gustibus—"iambic pentameter · 46 linesHome-Thoughts, from Abroadtrochaic pentameter · 20 linesHome-Thoughts, from the Seatrochaic octameter · AABB · 7 linesSaulanapaestic pentameter · 425 linesMy StarABABCDCDDEFEF · 13 linesTwo in the Campagnaiambic tetrameter · ABABA · 60 linesIn Three Daysiambic tetrameter · 38 linesThe Guardian-Angeliambic pentameter · ABABCCA · 56 linesMemorabiliaiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesIncident of the French Campiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 40 linesMy Last Duchessiambic pentameter · AABB · 56 linesThe Boy and the Angeliambic tetrameter · AABB · 78 linesThe Pied Piper of Hameliniambic pentameter · AABB · 303 linesThe Flight of the Duchessiambic pentameter · 916 linesA Grammarian's Funeral148 lines"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"iambic pentameter · ABBAAB · 204 linesHow It Strikes a Contemporaryiambic pentameter · 115 linesFra Lippo Lippiiambic pentameter · 392 linesAndrea del Sartoiambic pentameter · 267 linesThe Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Churchiambic pentameter · 125 linesCleoniambic pentameter · 353 linesOne Word Moretrochaic pentameter · 198 linesAbt Vogler107 linesRabbi Ben Ezraiambic trimeter · AABCCB · 193 linesCaliban upon Setebos; or Natural Theology in the Islandiambic pentameter · 291 linesMay and Deathiambic tetrameter · 20 linesProspiceABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJKLKLMNMN · 28 linesA Faceiambic pentameter · 22 linesO Lyric Loveiambic pentameter · 26 linesPrologue to Pacchiarottoiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 24 linesHouseiambic pentameter · ABAB · 40 linesShopiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 110 linesHerve Rieltrochaic tetrameter · 145 lines"Good, to Forgive"ABBACDDC · 24 lines"Such a Starved Bank of Moss"iambic trimeter · ABAB · 12 linesEpilogue to the Two Poets of Croisictrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 108 linesPheidippides129 linesMuleykeh136 linesWanting Is—What?15 linesNever the Time and the PlaceABABACDCDDCCEFFEGGHHHH · 22 linesThe Patriotiambic pentameter · ABABA · 30 linesInstans Tyrannusanapaestic trimeter · AABB · 72 linesThe Italian in Englandiambic tetrameter · AABB · 162 lines"Round Us the Wild Creatures"trochaic hexameter · AABB · 12 linesPrologue to Asolandoiambic tetrameter · 45 linesSummum Bonum9 linesEpilogue to Asolandotrochaic hexameter · 20 linesPersons5 linesNew Year's Day at Asolo in the Trevisaniambic pentameter · AABB · 214 linesSebaldiambic pentameter · 332 linesIi.—Nooniambic pentameter · 363 linesIii.—Eveningiambic pentameter · 500 lines
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