APPENDIX 4
Some Features of Prosody and Versification
1. DDDD (36): 13.1%In pentameters (first two feet), by (number of lines [of the total 272 pentameters]) and by percent, from most to least frequent:
2. DDSD (34): 12.4%
2. DSDD (34): 12.4%
4. DSSD (30): 10.9%
5. DSDS (28): 10.2%
6. DSSS (25): 9.1%
7. DDDS (20): 7.3%
7. DDSS (20): 7.3%
9. SDSD (11): 4.0%
10. SDSS (8): 2.9%
10. SSSS (8): 2.9%
12. SDDD (6): 2.2%
12. SSDD (6): 2.2%
14. SDDS (3): 1.1%
14. SSDS (3): 1.1%
16. SSSD (2): 0.7%
1. DD (122): 44.9%Some comparable figures for Ovid's elegiac verse are in Maurice Platnauer, Latin Elegiac Verse, pp. 36-37; and for the long hexameter poems, from the earliest records to late antiquity, in George E. Duckworth, Vergil and Classical Hexameter Poetry, especially Table 1. For Anglo-Saxon-period Anglo-Latin poets, see Andy Orchard, "After Aldhelm," 96-133; and figures for some later medieval continental Latin poets are discussed in Warner of Rouen, Moriuht, ed. Christopher J. McDonough, especially pp. 60-61.
2. DS (104): 38.2%
3. SD (32): 11.8%
4. SS (14): 5.1%