Poems
Robert Greene as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 80 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.38 times what shuffling the words would give (0.40 observed against 0.29 expected). 16% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Samelaiambic pentameter · 24 linesFawniaiambic pentameter · 24 linesSephestia’s Lullabytrochaic tetrameter · AABBCCDDEE · 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.