The Defeat of Youth, and Other Poems
Aldous Huxley's second book of verse, built around a sequence of twenty-two sonnets: "The Defeat of Youth", "Song of Poplars", "The Life Theoretic".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,202 lines, 90% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 89% to 91%). Alliteration runs at 1.01 times what shuffling the words would give (0.32 observed against 0.31 expected). 19% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Under the Treesiambic pentameter · 70 linesIn the Hay-Loftiambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem VIIiambic pentameter · 14 linesMountainsiambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem IXiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEEFGFG · 14 linesIn the Little Roomiambic pentameter · 98 linesIn the Parkiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEEFGFG · 14 linesPoem XVIIIiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEEFGFG · 14 linesPoem XIXiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEEFGFG · 14 linesSelf-Tormentiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEEFGFG · 14 linesPoem XXIiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Quarry in the Woodiambic pentameter · 15 linesSong of Poplarsiambic pentameter · 30 linesThe Reefiambic pentameter · 60 linesWinter Dreamiambic pentameter · 26 linesThe Flowersiambic dimeter · 21 linesThe Elmsiambic pentameter · 14 linesOut of the Windowiambic pentameter · 30 linesInspirationiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEF · 12 linesSummer Stillnessiambic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 8 linesAnniversariesiambic tetrameter · 54 linesItalyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 41 linesThe Alieniambic trimeter · ABBA · 12 linesA Little Memoryiambic dimeter · 20 linesWakingiambic tetrameter · 46 linesBy the Fireiambic pentameter · 35 linesValedictoryiambic pentameter · 42 linesLove Songiambic pentameter · ABBA · 20 linesPrivate Propertyiambic pentameter · AABB · 16 linesRevelationiambic tetrameter · 14 linesMinoan Porcelainiambic tetrameter · 14 linesThe Decameroniambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesIn Uncertainty to a Ladycommon measure · ABAB · 8 linesCrapulous Impressioniambic tetrameter · 22 linesThe Life Theoreticiambic pentameter · 13 linesComplaint of a Poet Manquéiambic pentameter · 18 linesSocial Amenitiesiambic pentameter · 11 linesTopiaryiambic pentameter · 15 linesOn the Busiambic pentameter · 13 linesPoints and Linestrochaic pentameter · 10 linesPaniciambic tetrameter · 11 linesReturn from Businesstrochaic tetrameter · 8 linesStanzasiambic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 24 linesPoemiambic pentameter · ABAB · 24 linesScenes of the Mindiambic tetrameter · AABB · 54 linesL'Après-Midi D'Un Fauneiambic pentameter · AABB · 113 linesThe Louse-Huntersiambic pentameter · ABAB · 20 lines
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