Poems
John Lyly as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 27 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 0.77 times what shuffling the words would give (0.22 observed against 0.29 expected). 18% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Cards and Kissesiambic tetrameter · AABB · 14 linesSpring’s Welcomeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 13 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.