Amours de Voyage
Clough's verse novel in hexameters, told in letters from Rome in 1849.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,262 lines, 72% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 71% to 73%). Alliteration runs at 1.12 times what shuffling the words would give (0.52 observed against 0.46 expected). 83% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Arthur Hugh Cloughunrhymed · 7 linesCanto I290 linesCanto II348 linesCanto III307 linesCanto IVdactylic pentameter · 83 linesCanto Vdactylic pentameter · 227 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Amours De Voyage, Project Gutenberg ebook #1393. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.