Poems
Sir William Davenant as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 40 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 90% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.26 times what shuffling the words would give (0.45 observed against 0.36 expected). 18% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Aubadeiambic pentameter · 12 linesTo a Mistress Dyingiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesPraise and Prayeriambic pentameter · 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.