Poems
Henry Charles Beeching as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 49 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 90% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.01 times what shuffling the words would give (0.22 observed against 0.22 expected). 8% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Prayersiambic trimeter · ABABBCBC · 24 linesGoing down Hill on a Bicycleiambic tetrameter · AABB · 25 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.