Poems
John Webster as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 44 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 91% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 0.73 times what shuffling the words would give (0.18 observed against 0.25 expected). 18% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
A Dirgeiambic pentameter · 10 linesThe Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfiiambic tetrameter · AABB · 18 linesVanitas Vanitatumiambic tetrameter · AABB · 16 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.