Poems
George Darley as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 72 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 90% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.03 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.27 expected). 32% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Songtrochaic hexameter · ABAB · 16 linesTo Heleneiambic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Fallen Starcommon measure · ABAB · 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.