Laurel · Madison Julius Cawein

Poems

Madison Julius Cawein (1865–1914) · 1911

Mostly iambic tetrameter · 5,049 lines in 143 sections

Madison Cawein, the Keats of Kentucky, who wrote the Ohio valley into English verse.

Measured across the book

Across its 5,187 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.31 times what shuffling the words would give (0.35 observed against 0.27 expected). 15% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

Contents

Hymn to Spiritual Desire52 lines Beautiful-Bosomed, o Night41 lines Discoveryiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 20 lines O Maytime Woods!iambic pentameter · ABABA · 35 lines The Redbirdcommon measure · 33 lines A Niëllo Iiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 lines A Niëllo IIiambic tetrameter · ABBAACCA · 40 lines A Niëllo IIIiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 24 lines In Mayiambic tetrameter · ABBACCCA · 24 lines Aubadeiambic tetrameter · ABBACDCDC · 27 lines Apocalypseiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 lines Penetraliaiambic tetrameter · ABAABCC · 35 lines Elusioniambic tetrameter · ABBAACACA · 45 lines Womanhoodiambic trimeter · ABCBAC · 18 lines The Idyll of the Standing Stoneiambic tetrameter · ABBACCA · 35 lines Noëraiambic trimeter · ABABAB · 54 lines The Old Springtrochaic tetrameter · AABBCDCDD · 27 lines A Dreamer of Dreamsiambic tetrameter · AABB · 54 lines Spring on the Hillsiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 35 lines Moss and FernABABBCC · 42 lines The Thorn Treeiambic heptameter · AABB · 27 lines The Hamadryadiambic tetrameter · 27 lines Preludes IAABB · 13 lines Preludes IIiambic tetrameter · ABBACC · 18 lines Mayiambic tetrameter · 21 lines What Little Things!iambic trimeter · 18 lines In the Shadow of the Beechestrochaic tetrameter · ABABCCB · 28 lines Unrequitediambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 lines The Solitaryiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 lines A Twilight Mothiambic pentameter · 42 lines The Old Farmtrochaic tetrameter · ABABA · 76 lines The Whippoorwilliambic tetrameter · AAABCCCCCB · 30 lines Revealmentiambic pentameter · AABAAB · 18 lines Hepaticastrochaic tetrameter · 24 lines The Wind of Springiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 20 lines The Catbirdiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 35 lines A Woodland Graveiambic tetrameter · AABBBA · 36 lines Sunset Dreamsiambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 lines The Old Bywayiambic tetrameter · AABAB · 25 lines "Below the Sunset's Range of Rose"iambic tetrameter · ABABAB · 36 lines Music of Summeriambic pentameter · 45 lines Midsummeriambic tetrameter · AABCCBDD · 48 lines The Rain-Crowiambic pentameter · ABABBACCA · 36 lines Field and Forest Call Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 11 lines Field and Forest Call IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 11 lines Old Homesiambic hexameter · ABABA · 25 lines The Forest Wayiambic tetrameter · AAABBB · 30 lines Sunset and Stormiambic tetrameter · 18 lines Quiet Lanesiambic pentameter · 97 lines One Who Loved Natureiambic tetrameter · 64 lines Garden Gossipiambic tetrameter · ABAAB · 25 lines Assumptioniambic pentameter · ABABB · 15 lines Senoritaiambic tetrameter · AABB · 32 lines Overseasiambic tetrameter · ABABA · 50 lines Problemsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 lines To a Windfloweriambic pentameter · 18 lines Voyagerstrochaic tetrameter · 30 lines The Spelliambic tetrameter · 48 lines Uncertaintyiambic tetrameter · AABAB · 45 lines In the Woodiambic tetrameter · AABBAA · 36 lines Since Theniambic tetrameter · ABABA · 20 lines Dusk in the Woodsiambic tetrameter · ABBAB · 35 lines Pathsiambic tetrameter · AABB · 42 lines The Questtrochaic tetrameter · ABAABCCA · 32 lines The Garden of Dreamsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 32 lines The Path to Faeryiambic pentameter · 56 lines There Are Faeriestrochaic tetrameter · 59 lines The Spirit of the Forest Springiambic pentameter · 32 lines In a Gardeniambic tetrameter · AABB · 28 lines In the Laneiambic pentameter · 30 lines The Window on the Hilliambic tetrameter · ABBAB · 20 lines The Pictureiambic pentameter · ABAAB · 30 lines Molyiambic pentameter · 32 lines Poppy and Mandragoraiambic pentameter · AABBCCDDEE · 70 lines A Road Songiambic tetrameter · 14 lines Phantomsiambic pentameter · ABABB · 35 lines Intimations of the Beautifuliambic tetrameter · 330 lines Octoberiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 40 lines Friendsiambic tetrameter · ABBABA · 30 lines Comraderyiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 24 lines Bare Boughsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 lines Days and Daysiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 lines Autumn Sorrowiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 15 lines The Tree-Toadiambic pentameter · 36 lines The Chipmunkiambic pentameter · ABAABCBC · 32 lines The Wild Irisiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 36 lines Drouthiambic pentameter · ABABBCDDC · 36 lines Rainiambic pentameter · AABBABBAA · 18 lines At Sunsetiambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 lines The Leaf-Cricketiambic pentameter · AABBCCDDEEFF · 48 lines The Wind of Winteriambic tetrameter · ABABAB · 42 lines The Owletiambic tetrameter · ABCCBBA · 48 lines Evening on the Farmiambic tetrameter · AABAB · 70 lines The Locustiambic pentameter · ABABCBCDD · 36 lines The Dead Dayiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 lines The Old Water Milliambic pentameter · AABB · 146 lines Argonautscommon measure · ABAB · 32 lines "The Morn That Breaks Its Heart of Gold"iambic tetrameter · 89 lines A Voice on the Windiambic tetrameter · AAABCCCBB · 45 lines Requiem Iiambic tetrameter · AABB · 7 lines Requiem IIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 7 lines No more for him, where woodlands loomiambic tetrameter · AABB · 7 lines Poem IViambic tetrameter · AABB · 7 lines Lynchersiambic tetrameter · AABB · 22 lines The Partingiambic pentameter · 38 lines Ku Kluxiambic pentameter · AABB · 24 lines Eidolonsiambic tetrameter · ABABA · 35 lines The Man Huntiambic pentameter · AABB · 36 lines My Romanceiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 lines A Maid Who Died Oldiambic tetrameter · ABABAB · 24 lines Ballad of Low-Lie-Downtrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 40 lines Romanceiambic pentameter · ABAB · 52 lines Amadis and Orianaiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCDC · 36 lines The Rosicruciantrochaic pentameter · 43 lines The Age of Goldiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 18 lines Beauty and Artiambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 lines The Sea Spiritiambic tetrameter · 24 lines Gargaphietrochaic tetrameter · AABCCCCB · 56 lines The Dead Oreadiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 30 lines The Fauniambic tetrameter · ABABB · 35 lines The Paphian Venusiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 72 lines Oriental Romanceiambic tetrameter · AAABBCBC · 32 lines The Mamelukeiambic tetrameter · AAABBCBC · 32 lines The Slaveiambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 lines The Portraitiambic pentameter · AABB · 91 lines The Black Knightiambic tetrameter · ABBAABA · 196 lines In Arcadytrochaic tetrameter · AABBCCC · 84 lines Prototypesiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDECDE · 14 lines Marchiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDECDE · 14 lines Duskiambic pentameter · 14 lines The Windsiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDECDE · 14 lines Light and Windiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDECDE · 14 lines Enchantmentiambic pentameter · 14 lines Abandonediambic pentameter · 14 lines After Long Griefiambic pentameter · 14 lines Mendicantsiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDECDE · 14 lines The End of Summeriambic pentameter · 14 lines Novemberiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDECDE · 14 lines Poem IIiambic pentameter · 14 lines The Death of Loveiambic pentameter · 14 lines Unanswerediambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCDEE · 14 lines Uncallediambic pentameter · 14 lines

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