Ten Poems
What this poem is
Three Stories and Ten Poems is a collection of short stories and poems by Ernest Hemingway. It was privately published in 1923 in a run of 300 copies by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris.
The three stories are:
"Up in Michigan"
Adapted from the Wikipedia article “Three Stories and Ten Poems” (revision 1369490282), used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Laurel's own notes and measurements are not from Wikipedia.
Measured across the book
Across its 118 lines, 91% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 88% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 0.93 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.22 expected). 29% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
About this text
Public domain. Text from Three Stories & Ten Poems (poems only), Project Gutenberg ebook #59603. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.