Poems
Matthew Prior as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 6 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 146 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 0.98 times what shuffling the words would give (0.28 observed against 0.29 expected). 20% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Question to Lisettaiambic tetrameter · 59 linesSongiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesOn My Birthday, July 21iambic tetrameter · 22 linesThe Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venusiambic tetrameter · AABB · 4 linesA Letteriambic pentameter · 13 linesFor my own Monumentanapaestic tetrameter · 32 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.