The Fall of Troy
The war between the end of the Iliad and the Odyssey, from Penthesileia and the death of Achilles to the Wooden Horse, the sack of Troy and the storm that wrecks the Greek fleet, in Way's blank verse.
Measured across the book
Across its 9,987 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.08 times what shuffling the words would give (0.34 observed against 0.32 expected). 13% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Book Iiambic pentameter · 1128 linesBook IIiambic pentameter · 820 linesBook IIIiambic pentameter · 916 linesBook IViambic pentameter · 672 linesBook Viambic pentameter · 760 linesBook VIiambic pentameter · 719 linesBook VIIiambic pentameter · 809 linesBook VIIIiambic pentameter · 544 linesBook IXiambic pentameter · 599 linesBook Xiambic pentameter · 532 linesBook XIiambic pentameter · 523 linesBook XIIiambic pentameter · 629 linesBook XIIIiambic pentameter · 616 linesBook XIViambic pentameter · 720 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from The Fall of Troy, Project Gutenberg ebook #658. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.