Poems
Wilfred Owen's war poems, edited by Siegfried Sassoon.
Measured across the book
Across its 692 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 1.20 times what shuffling the words would give (0.45 observed against 0.38 expected). 22% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Strange Meetingiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 45 linesAnother Versioniambic pentameter · unrhymed · 18 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 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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