Poems
T. W. Rolleston as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 1 poem.
Measured across the book
Across its 21 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 84% to 99%). Alliteration runs at 1.45 times what shuffling the words would give (0.52 observed against 0.36 expected). 38% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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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.