Poems
Henry King, Bishop of Chichester as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 144 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 0.77 times what shuffling the words would give (0.19 observed against 0.25 expected). 14% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
A Contemplation upon Flowersiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 18 linesA Renunciationiambic pentameter · 32 linesExequy on his Wifeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 94 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.