Poems
Thomas Ashe as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 25 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 0.96 times what shuffling the words would give (0.36 observed against 0.38 expected). 36% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Meet We no Angels, Pansie?iambic tetrameter · 15 linesTo Two Bereavediambic pentameter · AABB · 10 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.