Songs of a Sourdough
Robert Service's Yukon ballads: "The Cremation of Sam McGee".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,220 lines, 92% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 91% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.29 times what shuffling the words would give (0.53 observed against 0.41 expected). 21% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Law of the YukonAABB · 98 linesThe Spell of the Yukonanapaestic trimeter · ABABCDCD · 72 linesThe Call of the Wild45 linesThe Lone TrailAABB · 41 linesThe Heart of the Sourdough31 linesThe Three Voicesiambic tetrameter · 30 linesThe Pines36 linesThe Harpyiambic heptameter · AABB · 36 linesThe Lure of Little Voicesiambic heptameter · ABAB · 26 linesThe Song of the Wage-Slave41 linesGriniambic heptameter · 28 linesThe Cremation of Sam Mcgee93 linesMy Madonnaiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesUnforgotteniambic pentameter · ABBA · 12 linesThe Reckoningiambic heptameter · AABB · 21 linesQuatrainsiambic pentameter · AABB · 32 linesThe Men That Don't Fit iniambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 linesMusic in the Bushiambic pentameter · ABAB · 52 linesThe Rhyme of the Remittance Man42 linesThe Low-Down White33 linesThe Little Old Log Cabintrochaic octameter · 27 linesThe Younger Soniambic heptameter · ABABCDCD · 48 linesThe March of the DeadABABCDCD · 51 linesA Life Tragedyiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 62 linesThe Woman and the AngelAABB · 27 linesThe Rhyme of the Restless Onesalexandrines · 39 linesNew Year's Eve62 linesComforttrochaic tetrameter · 24 linesPremonitioniambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesThe Trampsiambic heptameter · 14 linesL'EnvoiABABCDCD · 33 lines
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