Morgante Maggiore (Canto I)
Pulci's comic romance of Orlando and the giant Morgante, whose first canto Byron translated stanza for stanza and line for line.
Measured across the book
Across its 688 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.04 times what shuffling the words would give (0.32 observed against 0.31 expected). 26% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
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Public domain. Text from Morgante Maggiore (Canto I), Project Gutenberg ebook #20158. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.