The Marble Faun
Faulkner's first book, a 1924 sequence of seventeen poems about a faun in a garden, published before any of his novels.
Measured across the book
Across its 810 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.01 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.28 expected). 13% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Prologueiambic tetrameter · 39 linesIf I were free, then I would goiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII · 72 linesHark! a sound comes from the brakeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 51 linesAll the air is gray with rainiambic tetrameter · AABB · 38 linesThe poplars look beyond the walliambic tetrameter · 30 linesOn the downs beyond the treesiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 50 linesUpon a wood's dim shaded edgeiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ · 74 linesCawing rooks in tangled flightiambic tetrameter · AABB · 40 linesI am sad, nor yet can Iiambic tetrameter · AABB · 55 linesThe ringèd moon sits eerilyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 36 linesThe world is still. How still it is!iambic tetrameter · AABB · 42 linesThe hills are resonant with soft hummingiambic tetrameter · AABB · 44 linesAll day I run before a windiambic tetrameter · AABB · 38 linesNow silent autumn fires the treesiambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 linesThe moon is mad, and dimly burnsiambic tetrameter · 30 linesThe world stands without move or soundiambic tetrameter · AABB · 32 linesWhy cannot we always beiambic tetrameter · AABB · 41 linesDays and nights into years weaveiambic tetrameter · AABB · 42 linesEpilogueiambic tetrameter · AABB · 32 lines
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