Poems
Andrew Marvell as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 7 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 362 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.96 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.20 expected). 8% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
An Horatian Odeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 120 linesA Gardeniambic tetrameter · AABB · 26 linesTo His Coy Mistressiambic tetrameter · AABB · 46 linesThe Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowersiambic tetrameter · ABACCBDD · 40 linesThoughts in a Gardeniambic tetrameter · AABBCCDD · 72 linesBermudasiambic tetrameter · AABB · 40 linesAn Epitaphiambic tetrameter · 18 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, Project Gutenberg ebook #66619. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.