White Buildings
Hart Crane's first book: "Voyages", "At Melville's Tomb", "Chaplinesque".
Measured across the book
Across its 771 lines, 90% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 88% to 91%). Alliteration runs at 1.11 times what shuffling the words would give (0.30 observed against 0.28 expected). 26% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To Waldo Frankiambic pentameter · 4 linesLegendiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 23 linesBlack Tambourineiambic pentameter · 12 linesEmblems of Conductiambic hexameter · unrhymed · 17 linesMy Grandmother’s Love Letters25 linesTo William Sommeriambic pentameter · 20 linesIn Memoriam: Ernest Nelsoniambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 24 linesGarden Abstractiambic pentameter · 12 linesStark Majoriambic tetrameter · 24 linesChaplinesqueiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 23 linesPastorale20 linesIn Shadowiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Ferneryiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 10 linesNorth Labradoriambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 12 linesRepose of Riversiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 23 linesParaphraseiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 16 linesPossessionsiambic pentameter · 29 linesLachrymae Christiunrhymed · 45 linesPassageiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 37 linesThe Wine Menagerieiambic pentameter · 77 linesFor the Marriage of Faustus and Heleniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 8 linesThe Alchemist Iiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 51 linesThe Alchemist IIiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 37 linesThe Alchemist IIIiambic pentameter · 48 linesAt Melville’s Tombiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 16 linesVoyages Iiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 16 linesVoyages IIiambic pentameter · 25 linesVoyages IIIiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 19 linesVoyages IViambic pentameter · unrhymed · 25 linesVoyages Viambic pentameter · unrhymed · 25 linesVoyages VIiambic tetrameter · 32 lines
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Public domain. Text from White buildings, Project Gutenberg ebook #77837. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.