Poems
Alice Meynell's spare, exact lyrics: "Renouncement", "The Shepherdess".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,033 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.14 times what shuffling the words would give (0.31 observed against 0.28 expected). 34% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Sonnet—My Heart Shall Be Thy Gardeniambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesSonnet—Thoughts in Separationiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesTo a Poettrochaic tetrameter · ABABB · 50 linesThe Poet Sings to Her Poetiambic tetrameter · AABBA · 20 linesTo the Belovediambic tetrameter · ABABA · 35 linesMeditationiambic tetrameter · AABBA · 17 linesTo the Beloved Dead—A Lamentiambic pentameter · ABABB · 30 linesSonnettrochaic hexameter · 14 linesIn Autumniambic tetrameter · ABABA · 55 linesA Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Ageiambic hexameter · AABB · 57 linesSongiambic tetrameter · AABBA · 20 linesBuilders of Ruinsiambic tetrameter · ABABA · 60 linesSonnetiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Poet Sings to His Poetiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 20 linesA Rondeau by Couperiniambic tetrameter · 107 linesIn Early Springiambic pentameter · AABB · 38 linesPartediambic tetrameter · AABBA · 25 linesRegretsiambic pentameter · ABAB · 24 linesSongiambic tetrameter · 15 linesSonnet—In Februaryiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesSan Lorenzo Giustiniani's Motheriambic tetrameter · AABBA · 25 linesSonnet—The Love of Narcissusiambic pentameter · 14 linesTo a Lost Melodyiambic trimeter · AABB · 50 linesSonnet—The Poet to Natureiambic pentameter · CDE · 14 linesThe Poet to His Childhoodiambic heptameter · AABB · 44 linesSonnetiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesAn Unmarked Festivaliambic tetrameter · ABABB · 30 linesSonnet—The Neophyteiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesSonnet—Spring on the Alban Hillsiambic pentameter · CDE · 14 linesSong of the Night at Daybreaktrochaic trimeter · AABB · 12 linesSonnet—To a Daisyiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet—To One Poem in a Silent Timeiambic pentameter · 14 linesFuture Poetryiambic tetrameter · ABBAB · 35 linesThe Moon to the Suntrochaic tetrameter · AABBAA · 18 linesA Poet's Sonnetiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesA Song of Derivationsiambic tetrameter · AABBA · 25 linesAfter a Partingiambic pentameter · ABABA · 15 linesRenouncementiambic pentameter · ABBA · 14 linesVeni Creatortrochaic hexameter · AABB · 10 lines
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