Poems
George William Russell (‘a. E.’) as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 28 lines, 88% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 81% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.15 times what shuffling the words would give (0.43 observed against 0.37 expected).
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
By the Margin of the Great Deeptrochaic heptameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Great Breathiambic pentameter · ABAB · 12 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.