Poems
William Congreve as Quiller-Couch chose them for the Oxford Book of English Verse in 1900: 2 poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 24 lines, 98% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 100%). Alliteration runs at 1.06 times what shuffling the words would give (0.17 observed against 0.16 expected). 33% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
False though She becommon measure · 8 linesA Hue and Cry after Fair Amoretiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 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.