Poems

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) · 1503–1542

· 133 lines in 5 sections

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

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.

More by Sir Thomas Wyatt