Poetical Works, Volume I
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Old Ironsides", "The Chambered Nautilus", "The Deacon's Masterpiece".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,562 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.06 times what shuffling the words would give (0.30 observed against 0.28 expected). 10% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To My Readersiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 49 lines1830-1836 Old Ironsidesiambic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Last LeafAABCCB · 48 linesThe Cambridge Churchyardiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 112 linesTo an Insectiambic tetrameter · 54 linesThe Dilemmaiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDD · 48 linesMy Auntiambic tetrameter · 48 linesReflections of a Proud Pedestriananapaestic common measure · ABAB · 24 linesBy a Sensitive Maniambic dimeter · ABBA · 44 linesBy a Tailoriambic pentameter · unrhymed · 51 linesThe Dorchester Giantiambic pentameter · 55 linesTo the Portrait of "A Lady" in the Athenaeum Galleryiambic trimeter · 31 linesThe Cometiambic tetrameter · 72 linesThe Music-Grindersiambic tetrameter · 78 linesThe Treadmill Songiambic tetrameter · 40 linesThe September Galeiambic tetrameter · 56 linesThe Height of the Ridiculouscommon measure · 32 linesThe Last Readeriambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 48 linesPoetryiambic pentameter · AABB · 170 linesPoem Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 104 linesPoem IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 88 linesPoem IIIiambic pentameter · AABB · 120 linesPoem IViambic pentameter · AABBCCDD · 42 linesPoem Viambic pentameter · AABB · 124 lines
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