The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems
George Eliot's shorter poems: The Legend of Jubal, Agatha, Armgart, How Lisa Loved the King, A Minor Prophet, Brother and Sister, Stradivarius, and the lyrics that close the book, among them Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible.
Measured across the book
Across its 4,634 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.03 times what shuffling the words would give (0.34 observed against 0.33 expected). 19% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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About this text
Public domain. Text from The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems (ten poems from The poems of George Eliot, Crowell, 1884, on Wikisource; four from The Spanish Gypsy; The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, Old and New, Worthington, 1890, Internet Archive spanishgypsylege00elio), Wikisource and Internet Archive. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.