Chapter III: Bipartite Equal-Membered Stanzas

I. ISOMETRICAL STANZAS.

§ 230. Two-line stanzas 288
231. Four-line stanzas, consisting of couplets 288
232. The double stanza (eight lines of the same structure) 289
233. Stanzas of four isometrical lines with intermittent
rhyme 290
234. Stanzas of eight lines resulting from this stanza by
doubling 290
235. Stanzas developed from long-lined couplets by inserted
rhyme 291
236. Stanzas of eight lines resulting from the four-lined,
cross-rhyming stanza and by other modes of doubling 292
237. Other examples of doubling four-lined stanzas 293
238. Six-lined isometrical stanzas 294
239. Modifications of the six-lined stanza; twelve-lined
and sixteen-lined stanzas 295

II. ANISOMETRICAL STANZAS.

240. Chief species of the tail-rhyme stanza 296
241. Enlargement of this stanza to twelve lines 297
242. Further development of the tail-rhyme stanza 298
243. Variant forms of enlarged eight and ten-lined
tail-rhyme stanzas 298
244. Tail-rhyme stanzas with principal verses shorter than
tail-verses 299
245. Other varieties of the tail-rhyme stanza 300
246. Stanzas modelled on the tail-rhyme stanza 300
247. Stanzas formed of two septenary verses 301
248. Analogical developments from this type 302
249. Eight-lined (doubled) forms of the different
four-lined stanzas 302
250. Other stanzas of similar structure 303