Poems
Alan Seeger: "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" and the poems of the Foreign Legion.
Measured across the book
Across its 3,087 lines, 91% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 91% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.24 times what shuffling the words would give (0.42 observed against 0.34 expected). 16% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
An Ode to Natural Beautyiambic pentameter · 175 linesThe Deserted Gardeniambic pentameter · ABABABCC · 400 linesThe Torture of Cuauhtemociambic pentameter · unrhymed · 112 linesThe Nympholeptiambic pentameter · AABB · 49 linesThe Wandereriambic pentameter · ABBA · 52 linesThe Need to Loveiambic pentameter · ABAB · 44 linesEl ExtraviadoABAB · 24 linesLa Nueiambic pentameter · ABAB · 52 linesAll That's Not Loveanapaestic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesParis Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 36 linesParis IIiambic octameter · 90 linesChoral Songanapaestic dimeter · 45 linesThe Sultan's Palacealexandrines · ABAB · 88 linesFragments Iiambic pentameter · 16 linesFragments IIiambic pentameter · ABBA · 16 linesFragments IIIiambic pentameter · 20 linesFragments IViambic pentameter · 28 linesThirty Sonnets: Sonnet Iiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet IIiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet IIIiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet IViambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet Viambic pentameter · ABBAACCADEFDEF · 14 linesSonnet VIiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet VIIiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesSonnet VIIIiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet IXiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesSonnet Xiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet XIiambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet XIIiambic pentameter · ABBAACCADEDEFF · 14 linesSonnet XIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet XIViambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet XViambic pentameter · 14 linesSonnet XVIiambic pentameter · 14 linesKyrenaikosiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFGEFG · 14 linesAntinousiambic pentameter · 14 linesVivieniambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEFGEFG · 14 linesI Lovediambic pentameter · 14 linesVirginibus Puerisqueiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEFGEFG · 14 linesWith a Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnets on Leaving Collegeiambic pentameter · 28 linesCoucyiambic pentameter · 14 linesTezcotzincoiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCDCD · 14 linesThe Old Lowe House, Staten Islandiambic pentameter · 14 linesOneataiambic pentameter · 14 linesOn the Cliffs, Newportiambic pentameter · 14 linesTo England at the Outbreak of the Balkan Wariambic pentameter · 28 linesThe Rendezvousiambic pentameter · 64 linesDo You Remember Once Ialexandrines · ABAB · 28 linesDo You Remember Once IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 22 linesDo You Remember Once IIIiambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Bayadereiambic pentameter · ABBACDDC · 24 linesEudaemoniambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 linesBroceliandeiambic pentameter · 16 linesLyonesseiambic pentameter · ABAB · 11 linesTithonusiambic pentameter · AABB · 50 linesAn Ode to Antaresiambic pentameter · 100 linesDante. Inferno, Canto XXVIiambic pentameter · ABABBCBCC · 234 linesOn a Theme in the Greek Anthologyiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDD · 16 linesAfter an Epigram of Clement Marotiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 8 linesLast Poemsiambic pentameter · ABAB · 120 linesThe Hostsiambic tetrameter · 56 linesMaktoobiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 68 linesI Have a Rendezvous with Deathiambic tetrameter · 24 linesSonnetsiambic pentameter · 168 linesBellinglise Iiambic pentameter · 14 linesBellinglise IIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEEFGGF · 14 linesLiebestodiambic pentameter · ABABBCBCCDD · 33 linesResurgamiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 6 linesA Message to Americaiambic tetrameter · AABB · 120 linesIntroduction and Conclusion of a Long Poemiambic pentameter · 168 lines
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