Poems
Sir John Suckling as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 4 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 90 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 99%). Alliteration runs at 1.08 times what shuffling the words would give (0.23 observed against 0.22 expected). 34% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
A Doubt of Martyrdomiambic tetrameter · AABB · 35 linesThe Constant Loveriambic trimeter · 16 linesWhy so Pale and Wan?trochaic trimeter · 15 linesWhen, Dearest, I but think of Theeiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 24 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.