Poems

Thomas Heywood (1650) · 1650

· 52 lines in 2 sections

Thomas Heywood as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.

Measured across the book

Across its 52 lines, 97% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 1.13 times what shuffling the words would give (0.33 observed against 0.29 expected). 48% 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.

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