Poems
Thomas Lovell Beddoes as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 3 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 51 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 98%). Alliteration runs at 0.46 times what shuffling the words would give (0.12 observed against 0.25 expected). 22% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Wolfram’s Dirgeiambic trimeter · 18 linesDream-Pedlaryiambic trimeter · 19 linesSongiambic tetrameter · 14 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.