Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards
Evan Evans's translations of the Welsh bards, which fed Gray's Bard and the Celtic revival.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,837 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 96% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 1.33 times what shuffling the words would give (0.10 observed against 0.07 expected). 7% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Lucanus6 linesSpecimens of Ancient Welsh Poetry5 linesIn Five Parts: A Poem V10 linesEvani Evans, Cereticensis6 linesEvanus Evans380 linesHirlas Owaintrochaic pentameter · 150 linesAwdltrochaic pentameter · 132 linesCanutrochaic pentameter · AABB · 139 linesArwyrainiambic pentameter · 26 linesAwdltrochaic tetrameter · 266 linesPum Awdltrochaic pentameter · 221 linesDyhuddiant Elphintrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 34 linesAn Elegyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 42 linesA Paraphrase of the 137Th Psalmiambic tetrameter · AABB · 76 linesThe Penitent Shepherdiambic pentameter · AABB · 74 linesVersesiambic pentameter · AABB · 20 linesMr. Lewis Morris to the Rev. Evan Evans7 linesW. Lleyniambic tetrameter · 8 linesAgain67 linesWelsh Proverbs22 linesIorwerth Vychan4 linesCwydd Marwnad Lleucu Llwydtrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 111 linesCaer Liwelydd, Carlisle31 lines
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