The Day of Doom
The Puritan bestseller of colonial New England: the Last Judgment in ballad measure, learned by heart by children.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,825 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 1.00 times what shuffling the words would give (0.20 observed against 0.20 expected). 25% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To the Christian Readeriambic trimeter · 128 linesOn the Following Work and Its Authoriambic pentameter · 48 linesA Prayer, Unto, Christ the Judge of the Worldiambic tetrameter · AABB · 30 linesPoemiambic tetrameter · 1792 linesA Short Discourse on Eternityiambic tetrameter · 175 linesA Postscript unto the Readeriambic pentameter · AABB · 418 linesA Song of Emptinessiambic pentameter · ABAB · 108 linesDeath Expected and Welcomediambic pentameter · AABB · 12 linesA Farewell to the Worldiambic pentameter · 114 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from The Day of Doom; Or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment With Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #58716. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.