War Is Kind
Stephen Crane's second book of lines, with the title poem's bitter refrain.
Measured across the book
Across its 646 lines, 90% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 89% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.09 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.18 expected). 40% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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Public domain. Text from War is Kind, Project Gutenberg ebook #9870. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.