The Poetical Works, Volume I
Dryden's own verse rather than his Virgil: Absalom and Achitophel, Mac Flecknoe, A Song for St Cecilia's Day, and the satires in heroic couplets.
Measured across the book
Across its 9,115 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.16 times what shuffling the words would give (0.38 observed against 0.33 expected). 8% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Life of John Drydeniambic pentameter · 8 linesOn the Death of Lord Hastingsiambic pentameter · AABB · 108 linesWritten After His Funeraliambic pentameter · ABAB · 148 linesAstræa Reduxiambic pentameter · AABB · 327 linesA Panegyric on His Coronationiambic pentameter · AABB · 136 linesPresented on New Year's Day, 1662iambic pentameter · AABB · 157 linesWritten in the Year 1662iambic pentameter · AABB · 44 linesAn Historical Poemiambic heptameter · unrhymed · 10 linesJohn Drydeniambic pentameter · ABAB · 1216 linesBy Me Dryden and the Earl of Mulgrave, 1679iambic pentameter · AABB · 281 linesPart Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 1031 linesDerrickiambic pentameter · AABB · 1140 linesEpistle to the Whigsiambic pentameter · AABB · 322 linesThe Prefaceiambic pentameter · AABB · 461 linesThrenodia Augustalis: A Funeral Pindaric Poem, Sacred to the Happy Memory of King Charles IIiambic pentameter · 517 linesVeni Creator Spiritus, Paraphrasediambic tetrameter · AABB · 39 linesPart Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 572 linesPart IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 722 linesPart IIIiambic pentameter · AABB · 1299 linesMac Flecknoeiambic pentameter · AABB · 217 linesBritannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Prince, Born June 10, 1688iambic pentameter · AABB · 360 lines
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