Poems
William Broome as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 22 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 89% to 99%). Alliteration runs at 1.16 times what shuffling the words would give (0.27 observed against 0.23 expected).
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Rosebudiambic tetrameter · AABB · 14 linesBelinda’s Recovery from Sicknessiambic tetrameter · AABB · 8 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.