Amoretti and Epithalamion, and Other Poems
Spenser's shorter poems: the Amoretti sonnets, "One day I wrote her name upon the strand", the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion.
Measured across the book
Across its 9,984 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 95% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.35 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.22 expected). 13% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Of the Fifth Volumeiambic pentameter · 20 linesThe Ruines of Timeiambic pentameter · 490 linesPoem Iiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 14 linesPoem IIiambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem IIIiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 14 linesPoem IViambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem Viambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 14 linesPoem VIiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 28 linesPoem Iiambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem IIiambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem IIIiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 14 linesPoem IViambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem Viambic pentameter · 14 linesPoem VIiambic pentameter · 14 linesL’Envoyiambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Teares of the Musesiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 54 linesClioiambic pentameter · 60 linesMelpomeneiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 60 linesThaliaiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 60 linesEuterpeiambic pentameter · 66 linesTerpsichoreiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 60 linesEratoiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 120 linesUraniaiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 60 linesPolyhymniaiambic pentameter · 60 linesLate Deceasediambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesVirgils Gnatiambic pentameter · 686 linesMother Hubberds Taleiambic pentameter · AABB · 1388 linesRuines of Romeiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 448 linesL’Envoyiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 14 linesThe Fate of the Butterflieiambic pentameter · 440 linesVisions, Of, the Worlds Vanitieiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 168 linesThe Visions of Bellayiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 211 linesThe Visions of Petrarch: Formerly Translatediambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 98 linesMarquesse of North Hamptoniambic pentameter · 4 linesDaphnaidaiambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 197 linesPoem Iiambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 49 linesPoem IIiambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 49 linesPoem IIIiambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 49 linesPoem IViambic pentameter · 49 linesPoem Viambic pentameter · 49 linesPoem IViambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 49 linesPoem VIIiambic pentameter · ABABCBC · 77 linesG. W. Senior, to the Authoriambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 28 linesAmorettiiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 1235 linesEpithalamioniambic pentameter · 435 linesProthalamion: A Spousall Verseiambic pentameter · 181 linesIn Honour of Loveiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 307 linesIn Honour of Beautieiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 287 linesOf Heavenly Loveiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 287 linesOf Heavenly Beautieiambic pentameter · ABABBCC · 302 linesEpigramsiambic tetrameter · 7 linesPoem IIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 8 linesPoem IIIiambic tetrameter · 8 linesPoem IViambic pentameter · 59 linesCollected Fkom the Original Publications in Which They Appeared Iiambic pentameter · 17 linesEdmund Spencer IIiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEFEFGG · 44 linesVariations from the Original Editionsiambic pentameter · 35 linesIambicum Trimetrumtrochaic heptameter · 141 linesGood Master Hiambic pentameter · 6 linesIndex of Proper Namesiambic dimeter · 1252 lines
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