Sea Garden
H.D.'s first book of imagist poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,033 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.87 times what shuffling the words would give (0.12 observed against 0.14 expected). 28% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Sea Rosetrochaic trimeter · 13 linesThe Helmsmaniambic trimeter · unrhymed · 41 linesThe Shrine ("She Watches Over the Sea") Iiambic trimeter · 28 linesThe Shrine ("She Watches Over the Sea") IIiambic trimeter · 19 linesThe Shrine ("She Watches Over the Sea") IIItrochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 21 linesThe Shrine ("She Watches Over the Sea") IViambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 16 linesMid-Dayiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 26 linesPursuitiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 53 linesThe Contestiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 35 linesSea Lilyiambic dimeter · unrhymed · 20 linesThe Wind Sleepersunrhymed · 26 linesThe Giftiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 89 linesEveningiambic trimeter · 19 linesSheltered Gardentrochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 55 linesSea Poppiesiambic trimeter · 14 linesLossiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 49 linesHuntresstrochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 26 linesGarden Iiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 8 linesGarden IIiambic dimeter · unrhymed · 10 linesSea Violettrochaic trimeter · 17 linesThe Cliff Temple Iiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 28 linesThe Cliff Temple IIiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 13 linesThe Cliff Temple IIItrochaic tetrameter · 9 linesThe Cliff Temple IViambic trimeter · 5 linesOrchardiambic trimeter · 31 linesSea Godsiambic trimeter · 59 linesAcon Itrochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 10 linesAcon IIiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 23 linesNightiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 20 linesPrisonersiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 70 linesStormiambic dimeter · unrhymed · 13 linesSea Iris Itrochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 13 linesSea Iris IItrochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 11 linesHermes of the Waystrochaic dimeter · 24 linesPoem IItrochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 22 linesPear Treeiambic trimeter · 16 linesCitiesiambic trimeter · 81 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Sea Garden, Project Gutenberg ebook #28665. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.