Poems
Thomas Gordon Hake, the doctor-poet of the Rossetti circle, in the volume Alice Meynell introduced: the long allegory "Old Souls", "The Blind Boy", "The Snake Charmer".
Measured across the book
Across its 2,509 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 97% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 0.99 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.28 expected). 6% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Aloneiambic trimeter · ABABA · 35 linesOld Soulsiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 228 linesVenus Uraniaiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Crippleiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 180 linesThe Infant Medusaiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Lily of the Valleyiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 282 linesThe Lover’s Dayiambic pentameter · ABABBA · 24 linesThe Deadly Nightshadeiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 174 linesFlowers on the Bankiambic pentameter · ABBACC · 24 linesThe Blind Boyiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 222 linesWhen I Think of Thee, Brotheranapaestic dimeter · ABABCC · 24 linesEcce Homo!iambic tetrameter · 91 linesThe Snake Charmeriambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 126 linesPythagorasiambic pentameter · ABAB · 96 linesThe First Savediambic tetrameter · 228 linesThe Shepherdessiambic pentameter · ABABAB · 114 linesFarewell to Natureiambic pentameter · AABB · 64 linesThe Poet’s Feastiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCDEE · 14 linesThe Exileiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 180 linesThe Sibyliambic pentameter · ABABCC · 18 linesThe Painteriambic pentameter · ABABCDDC · 72 linesThe Sun-Worshipperiambic pentameter · ABABBA · 102 linesThe Inscrutableiambic trimeter · 96 linesLet the Dead Bury Their Deadiambic pentameter · ABABAB · 42 linesThe Golden Weddingcommon measure · ABAB · 34 linesGale (Norman)iambic tetrameter · 4 linesThe Hobby Horseiambic tetrameter · 7 lines
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Public domain. Text from The poems of Thomas Gordon Hake, Project Gutenberg ebook #78947. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.