The Sot-weed Factor
A satire on Maryland by a tobacco merchant, the first American verse satire.
Measured across the book
Across its 726 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 96% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 0.81 times what shuffling the words would give (0.19 observed against 0.23 expected). 13% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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Public domain. Text from The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse., Project Gutenberg ebook #21346. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.