Poems
Isaac Watts as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 88 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 0.74 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.28 expected). 65% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Day of Judgementiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 36 linesA Cradle Hymntrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 52 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.