Poems
Marianne Moore's first book, printed in London without her knowledge: "Poetry", "The Fish".
Measured across the book
Across its 536 lines, 85% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 83% to 86%). Alliteration runs at 1.01 times what shuffling the words would give (0.23 observed against 0.23 expected). 50% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Pedantic Literalisttrochaic tetrameter · 20 linesTo a Steam Rolleriambic hexameter · AABB · 12 linesThose Various Scalpels55 linesBlack Earth68 lines“He Wrote the History Book,” It Said20 linesReinforcements8 linesRoses Only15 linesIn This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and20 linesThe Fish48 linesMy Apish Cousins24 linesWhen I Buy Pictures32 linesPicking and Choosing28 linesEngland48 linesDock Rats29 linesRadical27 linesPoetry40 linesIn the Days of Prismatic Color30 linesIs Your Town Nineveh?trochaic trimeter · unrhymed · 12 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #62833. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.