G. W. Gerwig 



Author 



Work 



Number 

 periods 



Average 

 pred. 



Simple Clauses 

 sentences saved 



Shakespeare S'owwefs 500 4.42 8 7.66 



Moore LaUaRookh 500 4.22 10 11.90 



Arnold Sohrab and R.. Balder Dead 500 4.05 14 4.70 



Yery Poems 500 4.01 12 9.31 



Pope Esmys on Man and Criticism 500 3.89 12 5.30 



Wordsworth Excursion 500 3.86 12 20.27 



Broyfuing Sordello 500 3.62 25 11.54 



Chatterton Poevis 500 3.60 17 13.00 



Dryden Hind and Panther 500 3.58 7 10.05 



Keats Endymion 500 3.58 23 13.21 



Burns Poems 500 3.49 17 7.53 



Browning Ring and the Booh 500 3.48 26 5.03 



Scott Lady of the Lake 500 3.44 17 8.22 



Shelley Poe/«s 500 3.21 20 11.07 



Holland A'ai/irma 500 3.18 21 8.06 



Coleridge Poe His 500 3.10 22 18.24 



Chaucer Canterbury Tales 500 2.93 24 2.54 



Shakespeare Love's L. L., Tempest 1000 2.79 27 3.97 



Thomson Z*e9-^?/ 500 2.71 26 20.92 



Ossian Poe«is 500 1.46 64 3.90 



Manzoni I Promessi S2)0si 

 Dante Inferno 

 Vergil Aeneid 

 Cicero De Senectute 

 Homer Iliad 

 Herodotus Erato 



200 

 300 

 227 

 370 

 500 

 500 



3.85 

 .3.70 

 3.24 

 3.22 

 3.02 

 2.63 



9 

 5 

 14 

 21 

 15 

 30 



.3.14 



4.38 

 14.16 



5.77 

 21.16 

 47.01 



Author 



COMPARISONS 

 Average Predications Simple Sentences 



POETRY PROSE POETRY PROSE 



Clauses Saved 



POETRY PROSE 



Milton 



Lowell 



Spenser 



Moore 



Arnold 



Very 



Wordsworth 



Browning 



Dryden 



Scott 



Shelley 



Holland 



Coleridge 



Chaucer 



Shakespeare 



5.68^ 



4.88 i 



5.48 



4.93 



4.22 



4.05 



4.01 



3.86 



3.62 



3.48 



3.58 



3.44 



,3.21 



3.18 



.3.10 



2.93 



2.79 



4.87 



2.54 

 5.44 

 3.38 



2.77 

 3.67 

 3.87 



3.12 



4.89 

 3.36 

 2.48 

 3.03 

 3.33 

 5.25 

 2.76 



9.89^ 

 10.30 ) 

 10.78 

 11.15 

 11.90 



4.70 



9.31 

 20.27 

 11.54 ) 



5.03 i 

 13.21 



8.22 

 11.07 



8.66 

 18.24 



2.54 



3.97 



9.31 



4.76 

 6.74 



10.33 

 4.51 

 8.55 



11.35 



12.80 



4.88 

 13.03 

 8.27 

 3.76 

 11.10 

 1.02 

 4.46 



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