Poems

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton (1831–1892) · 1831–1892

· 172 lines in 2 sections

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.

Measured across the book

Across its 172 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.17 times what shuffling the words would give (0.44 observed against 0.38 expected). 16% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

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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.

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