Poems
Ben Jonson as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 11 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 287 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 0.99 times what shuffling the words would give (0.22 observed against 0.22 expected). 22% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Hymn to Dianatrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 18 linesTo Celiaiambic tetrameter · 16 linesSimplex Munditiisiambic tetrameter · AABBCC · 12 linesThe Shadowiambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Triumphanapaestic trimeter · 30 linesAn Elegyiambic tetrameter · ABBA · 36 linesA Farewell to the Worldiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 linesThe Noble Balmiambic tetrameter · 26 linesOn Elizabeth L. H.trochaic tetrameter · 13 linesOn Salathiel Pavyiambic trimeter · 24 linesA Part of an Odeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 64 lines
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Public domain. Text from The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, Project Gutenberg ebook #66619. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.