Poems

James Thomson (1700–1748) · 1700–1748

· 48 lines in 5 sections

James Thomson as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 5 poems.

Measured across the book

Across its 48 lines, 91% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 86% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.93 times what shuffling the words would give (0.31 observed against 0.34 expected). 17% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

Contents

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.

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