Poems of Giosuè Carducci
Forty-one poems by Italy's first Nobel laureate, from the early sonnets and the Hymn to Satan to the Barbarian Odes in classical meters, in Sewall's translation.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,315 lines, 89% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 88% to 90%). Alliteration runs at 0.93 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.30 expected). 39% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Romaiambic pentameter · 14 linesTo Satandactylic dimeter · 180 linesHomeriambic pentameter · ABAB · 14 linesVirgiliambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesInvocation to the Lyreiambic pentameter · ABBA · 20 linesSun and Loveiambic pentameter · 14 linesTo Auroraiambic pentameter · 68 linesRuit Horaiambic pentameter · 9 linesThe Oxiambic pentameter · 14 linesTo Phœbus Apollocommon measure · 48 linesHymn to the Redeemeriambic pentameter · 57 linesOutside the Certosaiambic pentameter · 12 linesDante: A Sonnetiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesIn a Gothic Churchiambic pentameter · 20 linesInnanzi, Innanzi!iambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesSermioneiambic pentameter · 60 linesTo a Horseiambic pentameter · ABAB · 14 linesA Dream in Summeriambic pentameter · 38 linesOn a Saint Peter's Eveiambic pentameter · 21 linesThe Mothertrochaic hexameter · 36 linesPassa la nave mia, sola, tra il piantoiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesVoice from the Palaceiambic pentameter · 33 linesVoice from the Hoveliambic pentameter · 33 linesVoice from the Banquetiambic pentameter · 32 linesVoice from the Garretiambic pentameter · 32 linesVoice from Beneathiambic pentameter · 32 linesF. Petrarcaiambic pentameter · 14 linesCarlo Goldoniiambic pentameter · 14 linesVittorio Alfieriiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesVincenzo Montiiambic pentameter · ABAB · 14 linesGiovan Battista Niccoliniiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesIn Santa Crocetrochaic hexameter · 14 linesVoice of the Priestsiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesVoice of Godalexandrines · ABAB · 14 linesOn My Daughter's Marriageiambic pentameter · 40 linesAt the Table of a Friendiambic tetrameter · AABB · 16 linesDanteiambic pentameter · 150 linesOn the Sixth Centenary of Danteiambic hexameter · ABBA · 14 linesBeatriceiambic pentameter · 54 linesA questi dì prima io la vidi. Usciaiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesNon son quell'io che già d'amiche ceneiambic pentameter · ABAB · 14 linesThe Ancient Tuscan Poetryiambic pentameter · ABAB · 14 linesOld Figurinesiambic pentameter · 12 linesMadrigaliambic pentameter · 8 linesSnowed Underiambic pentameter · 10 lines
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Public domain. Text from By Frank Sewall (London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1893), Project Gutenberg ebook #56711. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.