Poems
George Wither as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 4 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 200 lines, 99% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 98% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 1.21 times what shuffling the words would give (0.23 observed against 0.19 expected). 32% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
I loved a Lassiambic trimeter · 48 linesThe Lover’s Resolutioniambic tetrameter · AABB · 40 linesThe Choiceiambic tetrameter · AABB · 88 linesA Widow’s Hymniambic tetrameter · 24 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.