Original Sonnets on Various Subjects
Anna Seward, the Swan of Lichfield, who kept the sonnet alive between Milton and Wordsworth.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,568 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 0.97 times what shuffling the words would give (0.31 observed against 0.32 expected). 6% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
On Reading Her Centenary of Sonnetsiambic pentameter · 16 linesOn Reading the Following Paraphrasesiambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 linesSonnetiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet IIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 646 linesWritten at Buxton in a Rainy Seasoniambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo, Honora Sneyd,, Whose Health Was Always Best in Winteriambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo A, Friend,, Who Thinks Sensibility a Misfortuneiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTranslationiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Honora Sneydiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesWritten on Rising Ground Near Lichfieldiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTranslated from Boileauiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesOn Reading a Description of Pope's Gardens at Twickenhamiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSubject Continuediambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Miss E. Siambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTranslationiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesPetrarch to Vaucluseiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSubject Continuediambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo the Departing Spirit of an Alienated Friendiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSubject of the Preceding Sonnet Continuediambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSpringiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSummeriambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesAutumniambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesWinteriambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCDC · 13 linesWinter Eveningiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesDecember Morningiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesInvitation to a Friendiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo May, in the Year 1783iambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesOn Mr. Sargent's Dramatic Poem, the Mineiambic hexameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesOn the Use of New and Old Words in Poetryiambic pentameter · 19 linesTo, Sylvia, on Her Approaching Nuptialsiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesWritten in the Spring 1785 on the Death of the Poet Laureatiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesA Persian King to His Soniambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesOn the Quick Transition from Winter to Summer in the Year 1785iambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesWritten the Night Preceding the Funeral of Mrs. Charles Buckeridgeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesWritten February 1787iambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Mr. Henry Cary, on Reading His Sonnets Written at Sixteeniambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Colebrooke Daleiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Mr. Henry Cary, on the Publication of His Sonnetsiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo the Sameiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesOn the Posthumous Fame of Doctor Johnsoniambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo the Poppyiambic pentameter · 13 linesWritten in the Rainy Summer of 1789iambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTranslationiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSubject Continuediambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesThe Critics of Doctor Johnson's Schooliambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet Lxxviiiiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesOn a Lock of Miss Sarah Seward's Hair Who Died in Her Twentieth Yeariambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesFrom the Italian of Filacajaiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Marchiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo the Lake of Killarneyiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesSonnet Lxxxviiiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesThe Prospect a Flooded Valeiambic pentameter · 17 linesSubject Continuediambic pentameter · 27 linesTo a Coffin-Lidiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCDC · 13 linesDecember 1790iambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesWritten December 1790iambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Mæcenas: Book I: , Ode the Firstiambic tetrameter · AABB · 60 linesTo Mæcenas: Book I: , Ode the Fifthiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 linesTo Mæcenas: Book I: , Ode the Seventhiambic pentameter · ABABCCDD · 72 linesTo Mæcenas: Book I: , Ode the Eighthiambic pentameter · ABAAB · 35 linesTo Mæcenas: Book I: , Ode the Ninthiambic pentameter · ABAB · 32 linesTo Mæcenas: Book I: , Ode the Thirty-Firstiambic pentameter · AABB · 52 linesTo Mæcenas: Book I: , Ode the Thirty-Eighthiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesTo Mæcenas: Book II: , Ode the Secondiambic pentameter · ABABCCDD · 40 linesOctober 1796iambic pentameter · ABAB · 44 linesBook II: , Ode the Eighthiambic pentameter · ABCABCDD · 40 linesBook II: , Ode the Ninthiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 30 linesBook IIiambic pentameter · ABABCCDD · 32 linesBook II: , Ode the Twelfthiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 56 linesBook II: , Ode the Fourteenthiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 36 linesBook IIIiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 41 linesBook III: , Ode the Thirteenthiambic pentameter · 24 linesBook III: , Ode the Nineteenthiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 82 linesBook III: , Ode the Twenty-Thirdiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 30 linesBook IV: , Ode the Thirdiambic pentameter · 30 linesBook IV: , Ode the Seventh, Imitatediambic pentameter · ABAB · 48 linesBook IViambic tetrameter · ABAAB · 30 linesBook IV: , Ode the Eleventhiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 54 linesOn the Pleasures of Rural Life: Book V: , Epode the Secondiambic tetrameter · AABB · 162 linesOn the Pleasures of Rural Life: Book V: , Epode the Fifteenthiambic pentameter · AABB · 32 linesOn the Pleasures of Rural Life: Book V: , Ode the Seventhiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 30 lines
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