Poems
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
On the Death of a particular Friendiambic pentameter · AABB · 8 linesIn the Trainiambic pentameter · ABAB · 12 linesSunday up the Riveranapaestic trimeter · 8 linesGiftsiambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Vineiambic tetrameter · 8 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.