Poems
Thomas Love Peacock as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 89 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 0.76 times what shuffling the words would give (0.19 observed against 0.25 expected). 36% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Love and Ageiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 56 linesThe Grave of Loveiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 linesThree Men of Gothamiambic tetrameter · ABABCCC · 21 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.