Men, Women and Ghosts
Amy Lowell's narrative and polyphonic poems: "Patterns", "The Cremona Violin".
Measured across the book
Across its 4,731 lines, 91% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 91% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 0.99 times what shuffling the words would give (0.26 observed against 0.27 expected). 30% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Men, Women and Ghoststrochaic heptameter · 8 linesFigurines in Old Saxeiambic pentameter · 5 linesBronze Tabletsiambic pentameter · 4 linesWar Picturesiambic pentameter · 5 linesThe Overgrown Pastureiambic pentameter · 4 linesClocks Tick a Centuryiambic pentameter · 16 linesPatternsiambic pentameter · 108 linesPickthorn Manoriambic pentameter · ABABCDEDCCE · 682 linesPart Firstiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 216 linesPart Secondiambic pentameter · 262 linesPart Thirdiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 107 linesPart Fourthiambic pentameter · 126 linesPart Fifthiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 267 linesHoopsiambic pentameter · 149 linesBattledore and Shuttlecockiambic pentameter · 86 linesGarden Gamesiambic pentameter · 147 linesThe Trumpet-Vine Arbouriambic pentameter · 42 linesThe City of Falling Leavesiambic pentameter · 129 linesThe Fruit Shopiambic pentameter · 166 linesMalmaison IIIiambic pentameter · 4 linesThe Hammersiambic pentameter · 571 linesReign of Louis Philippeiambic heptameter · AABB · 33 linesLead Soldierstrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 63 linesThe Painter on Silkiambic pentameter · 25 linesA Ballad of Footmenanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 48 linesReapingiambic pentameter · 118 linesOff the Turnpikeiambic pentameter · 259 linesThe Groceryiambic pentameter · 416 linesAfter a Print by George Cruikshankiambic pentameter · 162 linesThe Red Lacquer Music-Standiambic hexameter · AABB · 149 linesFishiambic pentameter · 9 linesGameiambic pentameter · 10 linesDrawing-Roomiambic tetrameter · 8 linesCoffeetrochaic pentameter · 7 linesTalkiambic pentameter · 8 linesEleven O'Clockiambic tetrameter · 14 linesFirst Movementiambic pentameter · 44 linesSecond Movementtrochaic pentameter · 8 linesThird Movementiambic pentameter · 37 linesStudy in Whitesiambic pentameter · 44 linesAn Opera Houseiambic pentameter · 41 linesAfternoon Rain in State Streetiambic pentameter · 53 linesAn Aquariumiambic pentameter · 61 linesPoetryiambic pentameter · 10 lines
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Public domain. Text from Men, Women and Ghosts, Project Gutenberg ebook #841. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.