Poems
Henry Vaughan as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 4 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 112 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.09 times what shuffling the words would give (0.34 observed against 0.31 expected). 19% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Retreatiambic tetrameter · 32 linesPeaceiambic trimeter · 20 linesThe Timberiambic pentameter · ABAB · 20 linesFriends Departediambic pentameter · ABAB · 40 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.