Imaginary Conversations and Poems
Landor's lapidary lyrics and epigrams, with a selection of the prose dialogues.
Measured across the book
Across its 513 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.05 times what shuffling the words would give (0.27 observed against 0.26 expected). 16% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
She I love (alas in vain!)trochaic tetrameter · ABABBABA · 8 linesPleasure! why thus desert the heartiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 8 linesPast ruin'd Ilion Helen livesiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 8 linesIanthe! you are call'd to cross the seaiambic pentameter · AABB · 18 linesTwenty years hence my eyes may growiambic tetrameter · AABB · 12 linesHere, ever since you went abroadiambic tetrameter · 12 linesTell me not things past all beliefiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 4 linesProud word you never spoke, but you will speakABABB · 5 linesFiesole Idyliambic pentameter · unrhymed · 64 linesAh what avails the sceptred raceiambic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 8 linesWith rosy hand a little girl prest downiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDD · 9 linesTernissa! you are flediambic trimeter · 12 linesVarious the roads of life; in oneiambic tetrameter · 4 linesYes; I write verses now and theniambic tetrameter · AABB · 32 linesOn Seeing a Hair of Lucretia BorgiaAABB · 4 linesOnce, and once only, have I seen thy faceiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 9 linesTo Wordsworthiambic tetrameter · AABB · 71 linesTo Charles Dickensiambic tetrameter · AABB · 57 linesTo Barry Cornwalliambic tetrameter · AABB · 54 linesTo Robert Browningiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 14 linesAgeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 6 linesLeaf after leaf drops off, flower after floweriambic pentameter · AABB · 6 linesWell I remember how you smilediambic tetrameter · 8 linesI strove with none, for none was worth my strifeABAB · 4 linesDeath stands above me, whispering lowiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 4 linesA Pastoraliambic tetrameter · AABB · 10 linesThe Loveriambic tetrameter · ABAB · 8 linesThe Poet Who Sleepsiambic tetrameter · 17 linesDaniel Defoeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 14 linesIdle Wordsiambic tetrameter · 6 linesTo the River Avoniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 17 lines
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