Delia, with Constable's Diana
Samuel Daniel's sonnet sequence of 1592, printed with Henry Constable's Diana.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,100 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.14 times what shuffling the words would give (0.40 observed against 0.35 expected). 22% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Samuel Danieliambic pentameter · unrhymed · 12 linesCountess of Pembrokeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Deliaiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 800 linesSonnetiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 98 linesHenry Constableiambic pentameter · 41 linesUnto Her Majesty's Sacred Honourable Maidsiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo His Mistressiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo His Absent Dianaiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesThe First Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 126 linesTo the Lady Richiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesThe Second Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 140 linesThe Third Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 42 linesThe Fourth Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 126 linesThe Fifth Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 140 linesThe Sixth Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 140 linesThe Seventh Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 141 linesThe Eighth Decadeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 84 linesSonnets from the Manuscript Edition, Not Found in That of 1594iambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 140 lines
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Public domain. Text from Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia - Diana, Project Gutenberg ebook #18842. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.