Poems
Henry Constable as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 1 poem.
Measured across the book
Across its 14 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 0.64 times what shuffling the words would give (0.21 observed against 0.34 expected).
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.