Poems
Charles Wolfe as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 64 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 88% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.89 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.23 expected). 36% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunnaanapaestic common measure · ABAB · 32 linesTo Maryiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 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.