Poems from the Breakfast-Table Series
The poems Holmes set into the Autocrat and its sequels: "The Chambered Nautilus", "The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay", "Contentment".
Measured across the book
Across its 2,293 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.05 times what shuffling the words would give (0.34 observed against 0.33 expected). 13% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Chambered Nautilusiambic tetrameter · AABBBCC · 35 linesSun and Shadowanapaestic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 24 linesMusaiambic tetrameter · AABBBCC · 63 linesTo J. L. Motleyanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 28 linesWhat We All Thinkiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 40 linesIntra Murosiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 56 linesPrologueiambic pentameter · AABB · 74 linesLatter-Day Warningsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 linesAlbum Versesiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 linesA Good Time Going!iambic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 64 linesThe Last Blossomiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 48 linesContentmentiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 72 linesAn Unpublished Poem, by My Late Latin Tutoriambic pentameter · AABB · 16 linesThe Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shayiambic pentameter · AABB · 120 linesA Mathematical Storyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 162 linesWith Slight Alterations by a Teetotaler—(...)iambic tetrameter · 11 linesUnder the Violetsiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 40 linesHymn of Trustiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesA Sun-Day Hymniambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 linesThe Crooked Footpathiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 linesIris, Her Bookiambic pentameter · AABB · 51 linesRobinson of Leydeniambic tetrameter · ABAB · 48 linesHis Temptationiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 32 linesThe Opening of the Pianotrochaic octameter · AABB · 28 linesMidsummeriambic tetrameter · AABB · 28 linesProfessor Blue-Nosetrochaic hexameter · 53 linesHomesick in Heaveniambic pentameter · ABAB · 82 linesThe Young Girl's Poemanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 50 linesAmbitioniambic pentameter · 77 linesRegretsiambic pentameter · 80 linesSympathiesiambic pentameter · 62 linesMaster and Scholariambic pentameter · 53 linesAloneiambic pentameter · 21 linesQuestioningiambic pentameter · 56 linesWorshipiambic pentameter · 58 linesManhoodiambic pentameter · 76 linesRightsiambic pentameter · 127 linesTruthsiambic pentameter · 49 linesIdolsiambic pentameter · 95 linesLoveiambic pentameter · 99 linesAt a Bookstoreiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDD · 79 lines
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