Poems
Sydney Dobell as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 4 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 215 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 1.10 times what shuffling the words would give (0.35 observed against 0.32 expected). 10% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Ballad of Keith of Ravelstoncommon measure · 44 linesReturn!iambic pentameter · AABB · 48 linesA Chanted Calendariambic tetrameter · 34 linesLaus Deoiambic tetrameter · 89 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.