Poems
Thomas Carew as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 7 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 107 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 97% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 0.93 times what shuffling the words would give (0.21 observed against 0.23 expected). 10% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Songiambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 linesPersuasions to Joy: a Songiambic tetrameter · AABB · 14 linesTo His Inconstant Mistressiambic tetrameter · 15 linesThe Unfading Beautytrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 12 linesIngrateful Beauty threatenediambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 18 linesEpitaphiambic tetrameter · AABB · 12 linesAnotheriambic tetrameter · AABB · 16 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.