Amores
D. H. Lawrence's early poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 1,777 lines, 91% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 90% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.03 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.28 expected). 34% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Teasetrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 32 linesThe Wild Common50 linesStudytrochaic pentameter · 26 linesDiscord in Childhood12 linesVirgin Youth22 linesMonologue of a Mother57 linesIn a Boat24 linesWeek-Night Service39 linesIrony24 linesOld38 linesNascent64 linesA Winter's Tale15 linesEpilogue19 linesA Baby Running Barefootiambic hexameter · 16 linesDiscipline66 linesScent of Irisesiambic hexameter · 43 linesThe Prophet8 linesLast Words to Miriamtrochaic tetrameter · 36 linesMysteryiambic dimeter · 36 linesPatienceiambic trimeter · 13 linesBallad of Another Ophelia39 linesRestlessness63 linesA Baby Asleep After Pain15 linesAnxietyiambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Punisher27 linesThe Bride17 linesThe Virgin Motheriambic tetrameter · 36 linesAt the Window18 linesDrunkiambic tetrameter · 64 linesSorrow12 linesDolor of Autumniambic tetrameter · 28 linesThe Inheritancetrochaic tetrameter · 36 linesSilenceiambic tetrameter · 16 linesListeningshort measure · 24 linesBrooding Griefiambic tetrameter · 9 linesLotus Hurt by the Coldiambic pentameter · ABBA · 16 linesMaladeiambic hexameter · 27 linesLiaisonABAB · 28 linesTroth with the Deadiambic hexameter · 20 linesDissolutetrochaic hexameter · 11 linesSubmergenceiambic tetrameter · 14 linesThe Enkindled Spring14 linesReproachtrochaic tetrameter · 26 linesThe Hands of the Betrothed54 linesExcursion42 linesPerfidytrochaic tetrameter · 28 linesA Spiritual Woman23 linesMatingABABA · 47 linesA Love Songiambic pentameter · ABAB · 20 linesBrother and Sisteriambic hexameter · 38 linesAfter Many Daysiambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesBlue63 linesSnap-Dragon123 linesA Passing Bell27 linesIn Trouble and Shameiambic trimeter · unrhymed · 13 linesElegyiambic hexameter · 16 linesGrey Eveningiambic pentameter · ABAB · 20 linesFirelight and Nightfalliambic pentameter · ABBA · 12 linesThe Mystic Blue19 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Amores: Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #22531. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.