Trees and Other Poems

Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) · 1914

Mostly iambic tetrameter · 830 lines in 31 sections

Joyce Kilmer: "Trees" and the poems of a life cut short in France.

Measured across the book

Across its 830 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.93 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.31 expected). 14% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

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Public domain. Text from Trees, and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #263. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.

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