35 Sonnets
The thirty-five sonnets Pessoa wrote in English and printed at Lisbon in 1918, Shakespearean in form and turned on the gap between a soul and anything it can say.
Measured across the book
Across its 490 lines, 90% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 89% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.06 times what shuffling the words would give (0.39 observed against 0.37 expected). 26% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Sonnetstrochaic hexameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet IIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet IIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet IViambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet Viambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet VIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet VIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet VIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet IXiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet Xiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XIViambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XViambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XVIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XVIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XVIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XIXiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXIViambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXViambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXVIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXVIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXVIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXIXiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXXiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXXIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXXIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXXIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXXIViambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XXXViambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 lines
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