Parzival
Parzival's slow education from fool to Grail-knight, the German romance that Wagner drew Parsifal from, in the first complete English verse translation.
Measured across the book
Across its 13,520 lines, 81% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 81% to 82%). Alliteration runs at 1.04 times what shuffling the words would give (0.64 observed against 0.61 expected). 10% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Book I: GamuretAABB · 922 linesBook II: HerzeleideAABB · 870 linesBook III: GurnemanzAABB · 1110 linesBook IV: KondwiramurAABB · 720 linesBook V: AnfortasAABB · 896 linesBook VI: ArthurAABB · 1042 linesBook VII: ObilotAABB · 956 linesBook VIII: Antikonieiambic heptameter · AABB · 598 linesBook IX: TrevrezentAABB · 1184 linesBook X: OrgeluseAABB · 806 linesBook XI: ArniveAABB · 472 linesBook XII: EidegastAABB · 676 linesBook XIII: KlingsorAABB · 826 linesBook XIV: GramoflanzAABB · 902 linesBook XV: FeirefisAABB · 862 linesBook XVI: LohengrinAABB · 678 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Parzival, Project Gutenberg ebook #47297. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.