Poems
Henry Austin Dobson as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 47 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 1.25 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.22 expected). 15% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
A Garden Songtrochaic tetrameter · AABBCC · 24 linesUrceus Exitanapaestic dimeter · 8 linesIn After Daysiambic tetrameter · AABB · 15 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.