The Purgatory of St. Patrick
Calderón's legend of the knight Ludovico Enio and the cave of St. Patrick's Purgatory, complete in MacCarthy's verse.
Measured across the book
Across its 3,336 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.02 times what shuffling the words would give (0.22 observed against 0.22 expected). 47% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Act the First: Scene Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 135 linesAct the First: Scene IItrochaic tetrameter · 610 linesAct the First: Scene IIItrochaic tetrameter · 19 linesAct the First: Scene IVtrochaic tetrameter · 18 linesAct the First: Scene Vtrochaic tetrameter · 38 linesAct the First: Scene VItrochaic tetrameter · 72 linesAct the First: Scene VIItrochaic tetrameter · 104 linesAct the First: Scene VIIItrochaic tetrameter · 57 linesAct the First: Scene IXtrochaic tetrameter · 10 linesAct the First: Scene Xtrochaic tetrameter · 66 linesAct the Second: Scene Iiambic tetrameter · 45 linesAct the Second: Scene IItrochaic tetrameter · 44 linesAct the Second: Scene IIItrochaic tetrameter · 24 linesAct the Second: Scene IVtrochaic tetrameter · 40 linesAct the Second: Scene Vtrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 21 linesAct the Second: Scene VItrochaic tetrameter · 86 linesAct the Second: Scene VIItrochaic tetrameter · 48 linesAct the Second: Scene VIIItrochaic tetrameter · 32 linesAct the Second: Scene IXtrochaic tetrameter · 30 linesAct the Second: Scene Xiambic pentameter · AABB · 67 linesAct the Second: Scene XIiambic pentameter · AABB · 55 linesAct the Second: Scene XIItrochaic tetrameter · 42 linesAct the Second: Scene XIIItrochaic tetrameter · 139 linesAct the Second: Scene XIVtrochaic tetrameter · 134 linesAct the Second: Scene XViambic pentameter · 18 linesAct the Second: Scene XVItrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 62 linesAct the Second: Scene XVIIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 17 linesAct the Second: Scene XVIIItrochaic tetrameter · 37 linesAct the Second: Scene XIXiambic pentameter · 99 linesAct the Third: Scene Itrochaic tetrameter · 159 linesAct the Third: Scene IItrochaic tetrameter · 41 linesAct the Third: Scene IIItrochaic tetrameter · 65 linesAct the Third: Scene IVtrochaic tetrameter · 24 linesAct the Third: Scene Vtrochaic tetrameter · 133 linesAct the Third: Scene VIiambic tetrameter · ABBACC · 36 linesAct the Third: Scene VIItrochaic tetrameter · 123 linesAct the Third: Scene VIIItrochaic tetrameter · 150 linesAct the Third: Scene IXiambic pentameter · AABB · 61 linesAct the Third: Scene Xtrochaic tetrameter · 375 lines
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