The Five Nations, Volume II
The second half of The Five Nations, closing on the great hymn: "Recessional", "The Islanders", "Boots", "The Lesson".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,509 lines, 91% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 90% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.09 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.27 expected). 22% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
October 9, 1899trochaic hexameter · AABB · 70 linesDistrict Orders—Lines of Communicationcommon measure · ABAB · 64 linesThe Lesson40 linesThe Files (The Sub-Editor Speaks)trochaic tetrameter · 91 linesThe Reformersiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 44 linesDirge of Dead Sisterstrochaic heptameter · 43 linesThe Islanders106 linesThe Peace of DivesAABBA · 114 linesSouth Africatrochaic tetrameter · 60 linesThe Settleriambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 56 linesService Songsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 linesEnglish Irregular: ’99–02anapaestic trimeter · 79 linesM. I (Mounted Infantry of the Line)AABB · 88 linesColumns (Mobile Columns of the Later War)69 linesThe Parting of the Columnsiambic heptameter · AABB · 37 linesTwo Kopjes (Made Yeomanry)anapaestic trimeter · 66 linesThe Instructor (Corporals)iambic pentameter · 21 linesBoots (Infantry Columns of the Earlier War)trochaic hexameter · 32 linesThe Married Man (Reservist of the Line)iambic trimeter · 56 linesLichtenberg (N.S.W. Contingent)iambic tetrameter · 40 linesStellenbosh (Composite Columns)iambic pentameter · 52 linesHalf-Ballad of Watervaliambic tetrameter · 32 linesPiet (Regular of the Line)ABABCDCDEEFF · 72 lines‘Wilful-Missing’iambic pentameter · ABAB · 37 linesUbiqueiambic heptameter · AABB · 34 linesThe Return (All Arms)iambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 64 linesRecessionaliambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 30 lines
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