Poems

Douglas Hyde (1861)

· 25 lines in 1 section

Douglas Hyde as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 1 poem.

Measured across the book

Across its 25 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 87% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 2.02 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.10 expected). 40% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

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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.

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