Poems, Volume I
George Meredith: Modern Love, the sonnet sequence of a marriage failing, and the early poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 5,712 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.25 times what shuffling the words would give (0.35 observed against 0.28 expected). 20% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Chillianwallahtrochaic tetrameter · 48 linesThe Doe: A Fragment (From ‘Wandering Willie’)iambic tetrameter · 196 linesBeauty Rohtraut (From Möricke)iambic tetrameter · 32 linesThe Olive Branchiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 120 linesSongtrochaic tetrameter · AABBCC · 18 linesThe Wild Rose and the Snowdropiambic pentameter · 55 linesThe Death of Winteriambic tetrameter · 34 linesSonganapaestic dimeter · ABABCCDEEDFFD · 13 linesJohn Lacklandiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Sleeping Cityiambic tetrameter · AABB · 116 linesThe Poetry of Chaucer4 linesThe Poetry of Spenser4 linesThe Poetry of Shakespeare5 linesThe Poetry of Milton4 linesThe Poetry of Southey4 linesThe Poetry of Coleridge4 linesThe Poetry of Shelley4 linesThe Poetry of Wordsworth4 linesThe Poetry of Keats4 linesVioletsiambic tetrameter · AABB · 12 linesAngelic Loveiambic tetrameter · 33 linesTwilight Musiciambic tetrameter · 41 linesRequiemanapaestic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Flower of the Ruinstrochaic trimeter · ABBCACAA · 88 linesThe Rape of Auroraanapaestic dimeter · 44 linesSouth-West Wind in the Woodlandiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 119 linesWill o’ the Wisptrochaic tetrameter · 73 linesSongiambic tetrameter · ABABAABB · 16 linesSongiambic pentameter · ABBACC · 34 linesDaphnetrochaic tetrameter · 444 linesLondon by Lamplightiambic tetrameter · AABB · 124 linesSongtrochaic tetrameter · 25 linesPastorals Iiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 48 linesPastorals IIiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 60 linesPastorals IIIiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 22 linesPastorals IViambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 20 linesPastorals Vtrochaic hexameter · unrhymed · 16 linesPastorals VIiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 15 linesPastorals VIIunrhymed · 79 linesTo a Skylarkiambic tetrameter · unrhymed · 8 linesSong Springiambic pentameter · 9 linesSong Autumniambic pentameter · 9 linesSorrows and Joysiambic tetrameter · 160 linesThe Two Blackbirdsiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 52 linesJuly Iiambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 linesJuly IItrochaic tetrameter · 20 linesSongiambic tetrameter · 20 linesSongtrochaic tetrameter · ABACCBDAAD · 30 linesThe Shipwreck of Idomeneusiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 379 linesThe Longest Dayiambic tetrameter · 40 linesTo Robin Redbreasttrochaic pentameter · 30 linesSongiambic trimeter · ABBA · 32 linesSunriseiambic trimeter · 93 linesPictures of the Rhineiambic pentameter · 84 linesTo a Nightingaleiambic tetrameter · 24 linesInvitation to the Countryiambic pentameter · 49 linesThe Sweet o’ the Yeartrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 48 linesAutumn Even-Songiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 24 linesThe Song of Courtesyiambic tetrameter · 48 linesThe Three Maidensiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 24 linesOver the Hillsiambic tetrameter · 32 linesJuggling Jerrytrochaic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 104 linesThe Crown of Loveiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 linesThe Head of Bran the Blest Iiambic trimeter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Head of Bran the Blest IIiambic dimeter · ABABACAC · 32 linesThe Head of Bran the Blest III5 linesThe Head of Bran the Blest IVtrochaic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 linesThe Meetingiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 20 linesThe Beggar’s SoliloquyABABCDCD · 111 linesStanzer Thal, Tyroliambic pentameter · AABB · 20 linesPhantasyiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 124 linesThe Old Chartistiambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 119 linesSongiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 20 linesTo Alex. Smith, the ‘Glasgow Poet,’ on His Sonnet to ‘Fame’159 linesThe Promise in Disturbanceiambic pentameter · ABABBABACDCEDE · 14 linesModern Loveiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEFFEGHHG · 800 linesThe Patriot Engineeriambic trimeter · ABABCC · 134 linesCassandratrochaic tetrameter · ABBAB · 95 linesThe Young Usurperiambic tetrameter · 15 linesMargaret’s Bridal Eve Ianapaestic common measure · 24 linesMargaret’s Bridal Eve IIiambic tetrameter · 36 linesMargaret’s Bridal Eve IIIanapaestic common measure · 36 linesMargaret’s Bridal Eve IViambic tetrameter · 84 linesMariantrochaic tetrameter · 24 linesUnknown Fair Facesiambic pentameter · ABBAACCADEFFDE · 14 linesShemselniharanapaestic tetrameter · ABABCC · 42 linesA Roar Through the Tall Twin Elm-Treescommon measure · 12 linesWhen I Would Imageiambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Spirit of Shakespeareiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesContinuediambic pentameter · 14 linesOde to the Spirit of Earth in Autumniambic tetrameter · 209 linesMartin’s Puzzleanapaestic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 80 lines
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