The Listeners and Other Poems
Walter de la Mare in 1912: "The Listeners", "Silver", "The Song of the Mad Prince".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,204 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.13 times what shuffling the words would give (0.25 observed against 0.22 expected). 21% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
New York Henry Holt and Company5 linesThe Three Cherry Treesiambic tetrameter · 20 linesOld Susaniambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 linesOld Beniambic trimeter · 28 linesMiss Looiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDD · 28 linesThe Tailoriambic tetrameter · AABB · 18 linesMarthashort measure · 28 linesThe Sleeperiambic tetrameter · 28 linesThe Keys of Morningiambic tetrameter · 40 linesRacheltrochaic dimeter · 20 linesAloneiambic trimeter · 24 linesThe Bellsiambic tetrameter · AABB · 26 linesThe Scarecrowiambic tetrameter · 24 linesNodcommon measure · 20 linesThe Bindweediambic trimeter · 16 linesWinteriambic dimeter · 15 linesThere Blooms No Bud in Mayiambic trimeter · ABAB · 20 linesNoon and Night Floweriambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesEstrangediambic trimeter · 16 linesThe Tired Cupidiambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 linesDreamsiambic tetrameter · 12 linesFaithlessshort measure · 12 linesThe Shadeiambic pentameter · AABB · 8 linesBe Angry Now No Moreiambic trimeter · AABB · 18 linesSpringiambic trimeter · ABAB · 16 linesExilecommon measure · 8 linesWhere?iambic tetrameter · ABBACC · 12 linesMusic Unheardiambic trimeter · 24 linesAll That's Pasttrochaic trimeter · 24 linesWhen the Rose Is Fadediambic trimeter · 16 linesSleepcommon measure · 16 linesThe Strangercommon measure · 20 linesNever More, Sailoriambic dimeter · 28 linesThe Witchcommon measure · 44 linesArabiatrochaic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Mountainsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 linesQueen Djeniracommon measure · 20 linesNever-To-Beiambic tetrameter · AABBCC · 24 linesThe Dark Chateauiambic trimeter · 40 linesThe Dwelling-Placeiambic pentameter · ABAB · 44 linesThe Listenersiambic tetrameter · 36 linesTime Passestrochaic trimeter · 30 linesBeware!iambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Journeyiambic tetrameter · 76 linesHauntediambic tetrameter · AABBCCDD · 32 linesSilenceiambic trimeter · AABB · 28 linesWinter Duskiambic tetrameter · 28 linesAges Agoiambic tetrameter · 24 linesHomeiambic trimeter · 24 linesThe Ghost15 linesAn Epitaphiambic tetrameter · 8 lines'The Hawthorn Hath a Deathly Smell'iambic trimeter · 24 linesBurton E. Stevenson9 lines
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