Poems
Robert Stephen Hawker as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 36 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 0.91 times what shuffling the words would give (0.17 observed against 0.18 expected). 6% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
King Arthur’s Waes-haeliambic trimeter · ABABCC · 24 linesAre they not all Ministering Spirits?common measure · ABAB · 12 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.