Poems (1817)
Keats's first book: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", "Sleep and Poetry", the early sonnets.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,777 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 0.91 times what shuffling the words would give (0.30 observed against 0.33 expected). 24% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To Leigh Hunt, Esqiambic pentameter · 14 linesPoemsiambic pentameter · AABB · 243 linesSpecimen of an Induction to a Poemiambic pentameter · AABB · 68 linesCalidoreiambic pentameter · AABB · 162 linesTo Some Ladiesiambic pentameter · ABAB · 140 linesTo Hopeiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 48 linesImitation of Spenseriambic pentameter · 78 linesTo George Felton Mathewiambic pentameter · AABB · 93 linesTo My Brother Georgeiambic pentameter · AABB · 142 linesTo Charles Cowden Clarkeiambic pentameter · AABB · 132 linesTo My Brother Georgeiambic pentameter · 154 linesTo G. A. Wiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCDCD · 14 linesTo My Brothersiambic pentameter · 14 linesAddressed to Haydoniambic pentameter · 14 linesAddressed to the Sameiambic pentameter · 14 linesOn the Grasshopper and Cricketiambic pentameter · ABBCABBCDEFDEF · 14 linesTo Kosciuskoiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDEDCE · 14 linesSleep and Poetryiambic pentameter · AABB · 411 linesCorrectionsiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 8 lines
About this text
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