Poems
Laurence Binyon as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 15 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 86% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 1.01 times what shuffling the words would give (0.33 observed against 0.33 expected). 27% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Invocation to Youthiambic tetrameter · 8 linesO World, be Nobleriambic tetrameter · ABCCBAA · 7 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.