Poems
Thomas Campbell as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 94 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 1.25 times what shuffling the words would give (0.26 observed against 0.20 expected). 7% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Ye Mariners of Englandiambic tetrameter · 40 linesThe Battle of the Balticiambic tetrameter · 54 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.