Il Cinque Maggio
Manzoni's ode on the death of Napoleon, translated in 1861 by W. E. Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, in rhymed stanzas that follow the Italian six lines for six.
Measured across the book
Across its 108 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.37 times what shuffling the words would give (0.25 observed against 0.18 expected). 10% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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About this text
Public domain. Text from Il Cinque Maggio, Internet Archive. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.