Poems
Sir Robert Ayton as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 56 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 99%). Alliteration runs at 0.78 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.25 expected). 14% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To His Forsaken Mistressiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 24 linesTo an Inconstant Oneiambic tetrameter · ABABCCDD · 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.