Poems
Wilfred Owen's war poems, edited by Siegfried Sassoon.
Measured across the book
Across its 747 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 91% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.18 times what shuffling the words would give (0.46 observed against 0.39 expected). 23% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Poemsiambic pentameter · 13 linesStrange Meetingiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 45 linesAnother Versioniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 19 linesGreater Loveiambic pentameter · ABAB · 60 linesThe Showiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 29 linesMental Casestrochaic pentameter · 28 linesParable of the Old Men and the Youngiambic pentameter · 15 linesArms and the Boyiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 12 linesAnthem for Doomed Youthiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Send-offiambic pentameter · 20 linesInsensibilityiambic pentameter · 87 linesThe Sentryiambic pentameter · 37 linesThe Dead-Beatiambic pentameter · 20 linesExposure Iiambic hexameter · 20 linesExposure IIiambic hexameter · unrhymed · 20 linesSpring Offensiveiambic pentameter · 46 linesThe Chancesiambic pentameter · 18 linesS. I. Wiambic pentameter · 41 linesFutilityiambic tetrameter · 14 linesSmile, Smile, Smileiambic pentameter · 26 linesConsciousiambic pentameter · 15 linesA Terreiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 66 linesTo Siegfried Sassooniambic pentameter · 37 linesDisablediambic pentameter · 45 lines
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