Barrack-Room Ballads
Kipling's soldiers' songs, with "Danny Deever" and "Gunga Din".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,859 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 1.19 times what shuffling the words would give (0.35 observed against 0.29 expected). 19% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Tommyiambic heptameter · AABBCCCC · 40 linesFuzzy-Wuzzyiambic pentameter · 48 linesSoldier, Soldier40 linesScrew-Guns52 linesCells34 linesGunga Din85 linesOontsiambic heptameter · AABBCDCD · 40 linesLoottrochaic heptameter · AABB · 103 linesThe Widow at Windsoranapaestic trimeter · 45 linesBeltsiambic heptameter · AABB · 43 linesThe Young British Soldieranapaestic tetrameter · AAABB · 71 linesMandalaytrochaic octameter · AABB · 52 linesTroopin'AABB · 36 linesThe Widow's Partytrochaic tetrameter · 98 linesGentlemen-Rankers48 linesRoute Marchin'iambic heptameter · AABB · 45 linesShillin' a Day253 linesSappersanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 62 linesThat Dayiambic heptameter · ABAB · 36 linesA Song of Instruction45 linesCholera Campiambic heptameter · AABB · 51 linesThe Ladiestrochaic tetrameter · 88 linesThe Mother-Lodgetrochaic tetrameter · 100 linesThe Sergeant's Weddin'trochaic trimeter · 56 linesThe Jackettrochaic hexameter · AABB · 120 linesThe Shut-Eye Sentry112 linesFor to Admireiambic tetrameter · 56 lines
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