Poems
George Fox as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 1 poem.
Measured across the book
Across its 17 lines, 88% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 80% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.09 times what shuffling the words would give (0.65 observed against 0.60 expected). 35% 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.