Poem Typing Test

How this list was compiled: Fourteen whole poems, each typed from a printing made before 1931 and named here in full; the page numbers in the notes are that printing's. I'm Nobody! Who Are You?: Poems, Second Series, by Emily Dickinson, edited by T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891), the poem's first printing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Nobody!_Who_are_you%3F, which also gives the manuscript's advertise and June). My Heart Leaps Up: William Wordsworth, Poems, in Two Volumes (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), volume 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Heart_Leaps_Up). Loveliest of Trees: A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (New York: John Lane Company, 1906), a book first published in 1896 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad). The Swing and My Shadow: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885), the year the book was first published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Child%27s_Garden_of_Verses). When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1882); the poem is among the contents of Drum-Taps, published in May 1865 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum-Taps). The New Colossus: The Poems of Emma Lazarus, in two volumes, volume 1 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889), whose note on the poem reads Written in aid of Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, 1883; that it is a sonnet is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus. On the Grasshopper and Cricket: The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, edited by Horace E. Scudder (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1899), whose headnote gives the date written, 30 December 1816, calls the poem a sonnet and says it was in the 1817 volume, the poet's first (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats). Barter: Sara Teasdale, Love Songs (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Teasdale). Ozymandias: The Examiner (London), 11 January 1818, where the sonnet was first published, under the name Glirastes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias). The Lake Isle of Innisfree: The Year's at the Spring: An Anthology of Recent Poetry, compiled by L. D'O. Walters (New York: Brentano's, first published September 1920); the poem was first published in the National Observer in 1890 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lake_Isle_of_Innisfree). I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth, Poems (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815), volume 1, the text revised in 1815 with a verse added between the first and second; the poem was first published in 1807 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud). To Autumn: Keats: Poems Published in 1820, edited by M. Robertson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909), a reprint of the volume of 1820 in which the poem was published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Autumn). If: Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910), the book in which the poem was first published (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E2%80%94). Each text was taken from the transcription of that printing's page scans at Wikisource (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page), and the first printing of Ozymandias was also read on the scan itself. Each poem was then compared with a second public copy. The words agree except where printings differ: later printings of Ozymandias have desert and Nothing, a later text of I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud has show, another anthology spells gray in The Lake Isle of Innisfree, and one copy of The New Colossus reads be free where the book has breathe free. Where printings differ in punctuation, the marks typed are the named printing's. Changes to the texts: the lines of each poem were joined with one space; curly quotation marks were set straight; each long dash is typed as two hyphens; the capitals a printer set on a poem's opening word or words are typed as ordinary words; small capitals (the name in Ozymandias) are typed as ordinary letters; the spaces set inside the quotation marks of The New Colossus were closed up; the verse numbers of To Autumn, a footnote mark in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and the signature under Ozymandias were left off. Spellings, capitals and punctuation are otherwise the printings' own. Every poem was read line by line before it went in, and none was used that turns on a killing, drink or cruelty. A work first published before 1931 is in the public domain in the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States). Characters divided by five give standard words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute). The names of the passages, the notes, the grouping and the counts are own work. All checked 2026-10-16. Licence: Public domain in the United States: fourteen poems first published between 1807 and 1917 and typed from printings of 1807 to 1920, all before 1931 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States). The names of the passages, the notes, the grouping and the counts are own work.