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license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
  - meter
  - poetry
  - scansion
  - prosody
pretty_name: iambic pentameter
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

108k lines of 18th Century iambic pentameter, scraped via xquery from the Eighteenth Century Poetry Archive xml database.

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/

Scanned using prosodic.py.

https://github.com/quadrismegistus/prosodic

"Score" roughly equates to metrical complexity or divergence from strict iambic patterning.

See https://github.com/cretic/metricalgpt for more information including metrical constraints