The Blessed Damozel
The poem Rossetti began at nineteen and revised all his life, in its last text: "The blessed Damozel leaned out / From the gold bar of Heaven".
Measured across the book
Across its 169 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.90 times what shuffling the words would give (0.21 observed against 0.23 expected). 22% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Tailpieceiambic tetrameter · 150 linesEdited by Frederic Chapmaniambic tetrameter · 5 linesUnder the General Editorship of F. B. Money-Couttsiambic tetrameter · 14 lines
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Public domain. Text from The Blessed Damozel, Project Gutenberg ebook #52695. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.