Poems
John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 34 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 0.83 times what shuffling the words would give (0.21 observed against 0.25 expected). 9% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Reconcilementcommon measure · ABAB · 16 linesOn One who died discovering her Kindnessiambic tetrameter · AABB · 18 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.