Chapter XIV: Iambic-Anapaestic and Trochaic-Dactylic Metres

§ 189. General remarks 249

I. IAMBIC-ANAPAESTIC METRES.

190. Eight-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 250
191. Seven-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 250
192. Six-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 251
193. Five-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 251
194. Four-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 252
195. Three-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 253
196. Two-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 253
197. One-foot iambic-anapaestic verse 254

II. TROCHAIC-DACTYLIC METRES.

198. Eight-foot trochaic-dactylic verse 254
199. Seven-foot trochaic-dactylic verse 255
200. Six-foot trochaic-dactylic verse 255
201. Five-foot trochaic-dactylic verse 256
202. Four-foot trochaic-dactylic verse 256
203. Three-foot trochaic-dactylic verse 257
204. Two-foot dactylic or trochaic-dactylic verse 257
205. One-foot dactylic verse 258

CHAPTER XV

NON-STROPHIC, ANISOMETRICAL COMBINATIONS OF
RHYMED VERSE

§ 206. Varieties of this metre; Poulter's measure 259
207-8. Other anisometrical combinations 260

CHAPTER XVI

IMITATIONS OF CLASSICAL FORMS OF VERSE AND STANZA

§ 209. The English hexameter 262
210. Structure of the hexameter 263
211. Elegiac verse; the minor Asclepiad; the six-foot
iambic line; Phaleuciac verse; Hendecasyllabics;
rhymed Choriambics 264
212. Classical stanzas:--the Sapphic metre; the Alcaic
metre; Anacreontic stanzas 266
213. Other imitations of classical verses and stanzas
without rhyme 267

BOOK II

THE STRUCTURE OF STANZAS

PART I