Poems
Charles Kingsley as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 36 lines, 99% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 97% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 1.22 times what shuffling the words would give (0.36 observed against 0.30 expected). 28% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Airly Beacontrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 linesThe Sands of Deeiambic trimeter · AAABAB · 24 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.