Poetical Works
Thomas Traherne, found in manuscript two centuries late: the poems of felicity and childhood.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,989 lines, 94% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 0.97 times what shuffling the words would give (0.22 observed against 0.23 expected). 21% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Salutationiambic pentameter · 42 linesWonder64 linesEdeniambic pentameter · 49 linesInnocenceiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 60 linesThe Preparative70 linesThe Instructioniambic tetrameter · 16 linesThe Visioniambic pentameter · 56 linesThe Raptureiambic dimeter · ABBAA · 20 linesThe Improvementiambic pentameter · 84 linesThe Approachiambic tetrameter · AABB · 42 linesDumbnessiambic pentameter · AABB · 88 linesSilenceiambic pentameter · AABB · 86 linesMy Spirit119 linesThe ApprehensionAABB · 7 linesFullnessAABB · 37 linesNatureiambic pentameter · AABB · 90 linesEaseiambic pentameter · ABAB · 32 linesSpeed36 linesThe ChoiceAABB · 63 linesThe Person64 linesThe Estate70 linesThe Enquiryiambic pentameter · ABBACC · 36 linesThe Circulation84 linesAmendmentAABABCC · 49 linesThe DemonstrationAABB · 80 linesThe Anticipationiambic pentameter · 117 linesThe Recoveryiambic tetrameter · 150 linesAnotheriambic pentameter · AABB · 44 linesLoveABABCCDDEE · 40 linesThoughts.—Iiambic tetrameter · 84 linesThoughts.—Ii88 linesThoughts.—Iiiiambic pentameter · AABB · 78 linesDesireiambic pentameter · 65 linesThoughts.—Iviambic pentameter · AABB · 102 linesGoodnessiambic pentameter · AABB · 118 linesOn Newsiambic tetrameter · 116 linesThe RecoveryAABB · 11 linesAspirationiambic tetrameter · 68 linesAn Hymn upon St. Bartholomew's Day36 linesPoems Extracted from Traherne's "Christian Ethicks"iambic pentameter · AABB · 84 linesOf Meeknessiambic tetrameter · 117 linesOf Contentmentiambic pentameter · 33 linesBliss IAABCBDCDC · 9 linesBliss IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 67 linesThe Ways of Wisdom118 lines
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Public domain. Text from The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, 1636?-1674, from the original manuscripts, Project Gutenberg ebook #61586. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.