Poems
Sir Thomas Wyatt as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 5 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 133 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 99%). Alliteration runs at 1.22 times what shuffling the words would give (0.26 observed against 0.22 expected). 18% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Forget not yetiambic tetrameter · 20 linesThe Appealiambic trimeter · 24 linesA Revocationiambic dimeter · ABABBCC · 28 linesVixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus ...iambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 21 linesTo His Luteiambic tetrameter · 40 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.