Poems
William Cartwright as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 4 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 64 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 91% to 97%). Alliteration runs at 1.32 times what shuffling the words would give (0.33 observed against 0.25 expected). 20% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To Chloeiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 12 linesFalsehoodiambic tetrameter · 20 linesOn the Queen’s Return from the Low Countriesiambic pentameter · AABBCC · 18 linesOn a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman that died suddenlyiambic pentameter · 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.