Laurel · Henry Timrod

Poems

Henry Timrod (1828–1867) · 1860–1867

Mixed forms · 4,174 lines in 90 sections

Henry Timrod, the laureate of the Confederacy, and the elegies after the war.

Measured across the book

Across its 4,174 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.07 times what shuffling the words would give (0.33 observed against 0.31 expected). 11% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

Contents

Poems Written in War Timestrochaic dimeter · 11 lines Sonnetstrochaic hexameter · unrhymed · 15 lines Poems Now First Collectediambic tetrameter · 10 lines To Time, the Old Traveleriambic tetrameter · 30 lines The Mocking-Birdiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 10 lines To Harrycommon measure · 154 lines Springiambic pentameter · AABB · 68 lines The Cotton Bolliambic tetrameter · 167 lines Præceptor Amatanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 94 lines The Problemiambic octameter · AABB · 60 lines A Year's Courtshipiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 68 lines Serenadeiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 16 lines Youth and Manhoodiambic pentameter · ABAB · 56 lines Hark to the Shouting Windiambic tetrameter · 16 lines Too Long, o Spirit of Stormiambic tetrameter · 20 lines The Lily Confidanteiambic tetrameter · 96 lines Madelineiambic tetrameter · 108 lines To K. S. Giambic tetrameter · AABB · 50 lines Katieiambic tetrameter · AABB · 200 lines Why Silent?iambic pentameter · ABABA · 15 lines Two Portraits Iiambic tetrameter · AABB · 122 lines Two Portraits IIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 36 lines Two Portraits IIIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 60 lines La Belle Juiveiambic tetrameter · AABB · 39 lines An Exoticiambic pentameter · 44 lines The Rosebudsiambic tetrameter · AABB · 27 lines A Mother's Wailiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 51 lines Our Willieiambic tetrameter · 113 lines A Prize Poemiambic pentameter · 126 lines Part I, Section IViambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section VIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XVIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XXiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XXIViambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XXVIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XXXIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XXXVIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XLiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XLIViambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section XLVIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section LIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section LVIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part I, Section LVIIiambic pentameter · 56 lines Part II, Section IViambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part II, Section VIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part II, Section XIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part II, Section XVIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part II, Section XXiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part II, Section XXIViambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines Part II, Section XXVIIIiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines The Pastiambic pentameter · ABAB · 24 lines Dreamsiambic pentameter · ABAB · 28 lines The Arctic Voyageriambic pentameter · unrhymed · 45 lines Dramatic Fragmentiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 39 lines The Summer Boweriambic pentameter · unrhymed · 69 lines A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Nightiambic pentameter · 123 lines Flower-Lifeiambic tetrameter · AABCCCB · 49 lines A Summer Showertrochaic trimeter · 35 lines Baby's Ageiambic tetrameter · AABB · 20 lines The Messenger Roseiambic tetrameter · 24 lines On Pressing Some Flowersiambic pentameter · ABAB · 118 lines To a Captive Owliambic pentameter · ABAB · 31 lines Love's Logiciambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 lines Second Loveiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 lines Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia, S.C IIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 4 lines Hymn Sung at a Sacred Concert at Columbia, S.C IIIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 4 lines Lines to R. Liambic pentameter · unrhymed · 33 lines To Whom?iambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 24 lines To Theeiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 24 lines Storm and Calmiambic tetrameter · AABB · 33 lines Retirementiambic pentameter · 36 lines A Common Thoughttrochaic tetrameter · 16 lines Carolinaiambic tetrameter · AAABCCCBDDDB · 84 lines A Cry to Armsiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 48 lines Charlestoniambic pentameter · ABAB · 44 lines Ripleyiambic pentameter · ABAB · 36 lines Ethnogenesisiambic pentameter · 109 lines Carmen Triumphaleiambic tetrameter · ABBA · 52 lines The Unknown Deadiambic tetrameter · 46 lines The Two Armiesiambic tetrameter · AABBCCDD · 40 lines Christmasiambic tetrameter · ABBA · 96 lines Sonnetsiambic pentameter · 194 lines XV in Memoriam—Harris Simonsiambic pentameter · 14 lines Poems Now First Collectedcommon measure · ABAB · 16 lines A Bouquetiambic tetrameter · AABB · 26 lines A Trifleiambic pentameter · AABB · 46 lines To Rosa—: Acrosticiambic pentameter · AABB · 6 lines To Fairyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 28 lines

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