Poems and Ballads
Swinburne's scandalous first series.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,452 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 1.44 times what shuffling the words would give (0.48 observed against 0.34 expected). 34% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Commonwealiambic tetrameter · ABBAB · 250 linesThe Armada I10 linesThe Armada II12 linesThe Armada Itrochaic heptameter · 10 linesThe Armada II12 linesThe Armada III24 linesThe Armada I42 linesThe Armada II42 linesThe Armada I49 linesThe Armada II46 linesThe Armada Iiambic tetrameter · 42 linesThe Armada IIiambic tetrameter · 42 linesThe Armada I12 linesThe Armada IIdactylic pentameter · 11 linesThe Armada III145 linesThe Armada I54 linesThe Armada II54 linesTo a Seamewiambic tetrameter · ABCCABAB · 120 linesPan and Thalassiusiambic tetrameter · ABCBCA · 161 linesA Ballad of Bathtrochaic hexameter · ABAABCCDCD · 35 linesIn a Gardentrochaic trimeter · ABBA · 28 linesA Rhymetrochaic trimeter · ABAB · 32 linesBaby-Birdtrochaic trimeter · ABAB · 32 linesOlivetrochaic tetrameter · ABBCCCDDA · 81 linesA Word with the Windtrochaic hexameter · 66 linesNeap-Tideiambic tetrameter · ABBAB · 65 linesBy the Waysidetrochaic hexameter · AABAB · 40 linesFrom the Italian of Giovanni StrozziAABB · 4 linesFrom the Italian of Michelangelo BuonarrotiAABB · 4 linesIn Time of Mourningiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 11 linesThe InterpretersABAB · 48 linesThe Recalliambic tetrameter · 11 linesBy Twilightanapaestic tetrameter · ABAB · 11 linesA Baby's Epitaphtrochaic heptameter · AABB · 9 linesOn the Death of Sir Henry Tayloriambic pentameter · ABBAABBACCDEDE · 14 linesIn Memory of John William Inchboldiambic pentameter · ABAB · 120 linesNew Year's Dayiambic pentameter · 14 linesTo Sir Richard F. Burton (On His Translation of "The Arabian Nights")iambic pentameter · 14 linesNell Gwynanapaestic tetrameter · 14 linesCaliban on Arieliambic pentameter · 14 linesThe Weary Weddingdactylic dimeter · ABAB · 236 linesThe Windscommon measure · 16 linesA Lyke-Wake SongAABB · 16 linesA Reiver's Neck-Verseanapaestic trimeter · 20 linesThe Witch-Mothercommon measure · 64 linesThe Bride's Tragedy120 linesA Jacobite's Farewellcommon measure · 16 linesA Jacobite's Exilecommon measure · 84 linesThe Tyneside Widowiambic tetrameter · 75 lines
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Public domain. Text from Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III, Project Gutenberg ebook #18726. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.