Poems
John Dryden as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 5 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 262 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 1.21 times what shuffling the words would give (0.34 observed against 0.28 expected). 16% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Odeiambic pentameter · AABB · 134 linesA Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687iambic tetrameter · 64 linesAh, how sweet it is to love!trochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 24 linesHidden Flameiambic pentameter · AABB · 16 linesSong to a Fair Young Lady, going out of the Town in the Springiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 24 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.