A Little Book of Western Verse
Eugene Field's best-known poems for children: "Little Boy Blue", "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod".
Measured across the book
Across its 2,800 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.00 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.29 expected). 22% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To Mary Field Frenchiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesA Memoryiambic tetrameter · 4 linesCasey's Table D'Hoteiambic heptameter · AABBCCDDEE · 80 linesLittle Boy Blueiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 24 linesMadge: Ye Hoydeniambic tetrameter · 112 linesOld English Lullabydactylic dimeter · AABCCCB · 28 linesThe Bibliomaniac's Prayeriambic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Lyttel Boyiambic trimeter · 32 linesThe Truth About Horaceiambic tetrameter · AAABCCCB · 32 linesThe Death of Robin Hoodiambic pentameter · 134 linesMother and Childiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 linesOrkney Lullabyiambic tetrameter · ABACCDDDB · 27 linesLittle Mackiambic heptameter · AABB · 54 linesTo Robin Goodfellowiambic tetrameter · 32 linesApple-Pie and Cheeseiambic tetrameter · 84 linesKrinkentrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 56 linesBeranger's "Broken Fiddle"iambic tetrameter · 52 linesThe Little Peachiambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 linesHorace III. 13iambic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Divine Lullabyiambic tetrameter · 24 linesIn the Firelightiambic tetrameter · ABBACDDC · 24 linesHeine's "Widow or Daughter?"trochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 linesChristmas Treasuresiambic tetrameter · ABBA · 40 linesDe Amicitiisiambic dimeter · AABCCB · 78 linesOur Lady of the Mineiambic heptameter · AABBCCDDEE · 71 linesThe Wandereriambic pentameter · 20 linesTo a Usurpercommon measure · ABAB · 32 linesLullaby; by the Seaiambic tetrameter · ABACCB · 30 linesSoldier, Maiden, and Floweriambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 linesHorace to Melpomeneiambic heptameter · ABAB · 16 linesAilsie, My Bairniambic pentameter · 32 linesCornish Lullabyiambic tetrameter · 27 linesUhland's "Three Cavaliers"anapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 20 linesA Chaucerian Paraphrase of Horaceiambic tetrameter · AABB · 12 linesNorse Lullabyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 21 linesBeranger's "My Last Song Perhaps"iambic tetrameter · 40 linesMr. Dana, of the New York Suniambic heptameter · AABBCCDDEE · 92 linesSicilian Lullabyiambic tetrameter · ABACBC · 18 linesHorace to Pyrrhaiambic tetrameter · 16 linesThe Twenty-Third Psalmcommon measure · 20 linesThe Bibliomaniac's Bridecommon measure · ABAB · 44 linesChristmas Hymniambic tetrameter · 40 linesJapanese Lullabyiambic tetrameter · 20 lines"Good-By—God Bless You!"iambic tetrameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH · 48 linesHorace to Phyllisiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 linesChrystmasse of Oldeiambic tetrameter · 24 linesAt the Dooriambic tetrameter · ABAB · 20 linesHi-Spyiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesLittle Croodlin Dooiambic pentameter · ABBAA · 15 linesThe "Happy Isles" of Horacetrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 linesDutch Lullabyiambic tetrameter · 48 linesHugo's "Flower to Butterfly"iambic tetrameter · 24 linesA Proper Trewe Idyll of Camelotiambic heptameter · AABB · 170 linesBeranger's "Ma Vocation"trochaic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 40 linesChild and Motheranapaestic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 24 linesThe Conversazzhyonyiambic heptameter · AABBCCDDEE · 120 linesProf. Vere De Blawiambic heptameter · AABBCCDDEE · 110 linesMediaeval Eventide Songiambic heptameter · AABB · 20 linesMarthy's Younkitiambic heptameter · AABBCCDDEE · 70 linesIn Flandersiambic tetrameter · 38 linesOur Biggest Fishiambic heptameter · AABBCC · 37 linesThirty-Nineiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 56 linesYvytotiambic tetrameter · 120 linesLong Agoiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 linesTo a Soubretteiambic tetrameter · 48 linesSome Timeiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 24 lines
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