Poems
Charles Lamb as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 116 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 0.95 times what shuffling the words would give (0.27 observed against 0.28 expected). 35% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Old Familiar Facestrochaic hexameter · unrhymed · 21 linesHesteriambic tetrameter · AABB · 32 linesOn an Infant dying as soon as borniambic tetrameter · 63 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.