Chamber Music
James Joyce's early lyrics.
Measured across the book
Across its 434 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.27 times what shuffling the words would give (0.24 observed against 0.19 expected). 29% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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Public domain. Text from Chamber Music, Project Gutenberg ebook #2817. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.