The Poetical Works, Volume II
Wordsworth's shorter poems: "I wandered lonely as a cloud", "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", "The world is too much with us", the Lucy poems.
Measured across the book
Across its 7,888 lines, 96% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 96% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.02 times what shuffling the words would give (0.27 observed against 0.27 expected). 16% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
A Character4 linesPrologueiambic tetrameter · 190 linesPart Firstiambic tetrameter · 340 linesPart Secondiambic tetrameter · 205 linesPart Thirdiambic tetrameter · 400 linesSub-Footnotes on the Textiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 162 linesThere Was a Boyiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 39 linesThe Two Thieves; Or, the Last Stage of Avariceanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 48 linesFrom an Unpublished Poemiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 63 linesThe Simplon Passiambic pentameter · 20 linesNuttingiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 58 linesWritten in Germany, on One of the Coldest Days of the Centuryanapaestic tetrameter · 35 linesA Poet's Epitaphiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 60 lines"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known"iambic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 lines"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"common measure · ABAB · 12 lines"I Travelled Among Unknown Men"common measure · ABAB · 16 lines"Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower"iambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 42 lines"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"common measure · ABAB · 8 linesAddress to the Scholars of the Village School ofiambic tetrameter · 32 linesDirgeiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 24 linesBy the Side of the Grave Some Years Afteriambic tetrameter · ABAB · 18 linesMatthewiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 32 linesThe Two April Morningscommon measure · ABAB · 60 linesA Conversationcommon measure · ABAB · 72 linesTo a Sextontrochaic tetrameter · ABABCCDD · 32 linesA Fragmentiambic tetrameter · 55 linesLucy Gray; Or, Solitudecommon measure · ABAB · 70 linesRuthiambic tetrameter · AABCCB · 263 lines"On Nature's Invitation Do I Come"iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 51 lines"Bleak Season Was It, Turbulent and Bleak"iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 16 linesHart-Leap Welliambic pentameter · ABAB · 102 linesPart Secondiambic pentameter · ABAB · 84 linesA Pastoraliambic pentameter · AABB · 169 linesThe Farmer of Tilsbury Valeanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 96 lines"It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear"iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 47 linesTo Joannaiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 85 linesDaviescommon measure · 8 lines"There Is an Eminence,—Of These Our Hills"iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 17 lines"A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags"iambic pentameter · unrhymed · 80 linesTo M. Hiambic pentameter · 24 linesThe Waterfall and the Eglantineiambic tetrameter · ABABCCDEED · 56 linesA Pastoraliambic tetrameter · ABABCCDEED · 110 lines"'Tis Said, That Some Have Died for Love"iambic pentameter · ABABCDDC · 52 linesThe Childless Fatheranapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 20 linesSong for the Wandering Jewtrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 28 linesThe Brothersiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 444 linesThe Seven Sisters; Or, the Solitude of Binnorieiambic tetrameter · 66 linesRural Architectureanapaestic tetrameter · AABCCB · 24 linesA Characteriambic pentameter · AABB · 50 linesA Pastoral Poemiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 483 linesThe Sparrow's Nestiambic tetrameter · AABB · 23 lines"Pelion and Ossa Flourish Side by Side"iambic pentameter · AABB · 15 linesThe Prioress' Taleiambic pentameter · 241 linesThe Cuckoo and the Nightingaleiambic pentameter · AABB · 316 linesTroilus and Cresidaiambic pentameter · 167 linesThe Sailor's Motheriambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 36 linesSub-Footnote on the Textiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 64 linesBeggarsiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 52 linesComposed Many Years Afteriambic tetrameter · 42 linesTo a Butterfly (#1)iambic tetrameter · 18 linesThe Emigrant Motheriambic tetrameter · 84 linesPoem VIIIiambic tetrameter · 11 linesTo the Cuckoocommon measure · ABAB · 32 lines"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"iambic tetrameter · 49 linesTo a Butterfly (#2)iambic tetrameter · 19 linesForesighttrochaic tetrameter · 96 linesTo the Same Flowertrochaic tetrameter · AABCBCDD · 56 linesStanzas Written in My Pocket Copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence"iambic pentameter · ABABBCBCC · 72 linesResolution and Independenceiambic pentameter · 143 lines"I Grieved for Buonaparté"iambic pentameter · ABBAACACDEEDED · 14 linesA Farewelliambic pentameter · ABABBABA · 64 lines"The Sun Has Long Been Set"iambic tetrameter · 15 linesComposed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802iambic pentameter · 14 linesComposed by the Sea-Side, Near Calais, August, 1802iambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDCEDE · 14 linesCalais, August, 1802iambic pentameter · 14 linesComposed Near Calais, on the Road Leading to Ardres, August 7, 1802iambic pentameter · 14 linesCalais, August 15, 1802iambic pentameter · AABB · 14 lines"It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"iambic pentameter · 14 linesOn the Extinction of the Venetian Republiciambic pentameter · 16 linesThe King of Swedeniambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesTo Toussaint L'Ouvertureiambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesComposed in the Valley Near Dover, on the Day of Landingiambic pentameter · ABBAABBACDECDE · 14 linesSeptember 1, 1802iambic pentameter · 17 linesSeptember, 1802, Near Doveriambic pentameter · 14 linesWritten in London, September, 1802iambic pentameter · AABB · 14 lines"Great Men Have Been Among Us; Hands That Penned"iambic pentameter · AABB · 14 lines"It Is Not to Be Thought of That the Flood"iambic pentameter · 14 lines"When I Have Borne in Memory What Has Tamed"iambic pentameter · 14 linesComposed After a Journey Across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshireiambic pentameter · ABBABABACDECED · 14 linesSix Years Oldiambic pentameter · 33 linesTo the Daisyiambic tetrameter · AABB · 13 linesG. Witheriambic tetrameter · AAABCCCB · 111 linesTo the Same Floweriambic tetrameter · 48 linesTo the Daisy (#2)iambic tetrameter · 24 linesAfter Accompanying Her on a Mountain Excursioniambic tetrameter · 18 linesThe Green Linnetiambic tetrameter · 40 linesYew-Treesiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 59 lines"Who Fancied What a Pretty Sight"iambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 20 lines"It Is No Spirit Who from Heaven Hath Flown"iambic pentameter · 17 linesDeparture from the Vale of Grasmere. August, 1803iambic pentameter · AABB · 32 linesAt the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years After His Deathiambic tetrameter · 84 linesSub-Footnote on the Textiambic tetrameter · AAABAB · 84 linesTo the Sons of Burns, After Visiting the Grave of Their Fatheriambic tetrameter · AAABAB · 48 linesTo a Highland Girl (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond)iambic tetrameter · AABB · 78 linesGlen-Almain; Or, the Narrow Gleniambic tetrameter · 32 linesStepping Westwardiambic tetrameter · AABB · 26 linesThe Solitary Reaperiambic tetrameter · ABABCCDD · 32 linesUpon Loch Aweiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 43 linesRob Roy's Graveiambic tetrameter · 120 linesSonnet Composed At—Castleiambic pentameter · 14 linesYarrow Unvisitediambic tetrameter · 68 linesThe Matron of Jedborough and Her Husbandiambic tetrameter · AABB · 83 lines"Fly, Some Kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-Dale"iambic pentameter · AABB · 14 linesA Tale Told by the Fire-Side, After Returning to the Vale of Grasmereiambic tetrameter · AABB · 250 linesOctober, 1803iambic pentameter · 15 lines"There Is a Bondage Worse, Far Worse, to Bear"iambic pentameter · 15 linesOctober, 1803 (#2)iambic pentameter · 15 lines"England! the Time Is Come When Thou Should'St Wean"iambic pentameter · 15 linesOctober, 1803 (#3)iambic pentameter · 15 linesTo the Men of Kent. October, 1803iambic pentameter · 29 linesLines on the Expected Invasioniambic pentameter · AABB · 21 lines
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