The Village
George Crabbe's unsentimental rural poem in couplets.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,061 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 96% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.20 times what shuffling the words would give (0.45 observed against 0.37 expected). 5% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Book Iiambic pentameter · 346 linesBook IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 216 linesThe Newspaperiambic pentameter · AABB · 499 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from The Village and The Newspaper, Project Gutenberg ebook #5203. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.