Chapter IV

ONE-RHYMED INDIVISIBLE AND BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED
STANZAS

I. ONE-RHYMED AND INDIVISIBLE STANZAS.

§ 251. Three-lined stanzas of one rhyme 305
252. Four-lined stanzas of one rhyme 306
253. Other stanzas connected with the above 307

II. BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED ISOMETRICAL STANZAS.

254. Four-lined stanzas 308
255. Five-lined stanzas 308
256. Four-lined stanzas of one rhyme extended by the
addition of a couplet 310

III. BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED ANISOMETRICAL STANZAS.

§ 257-8. Four-lined stanzas; Poulter's measure and other
stanzas 311
259. Five-lined stanzas 314
260. Shortened tail-rhyme stanzas 316
261. Six-lined stanzas 317
262. Seven-lined stanzas 319
263. Eight-, nine-, and ten-lined stanzas 320
264. The bob-wheel stanzas in the Middle English period 321
265. Bob-wheel stanzas of four-stressed rhyming verses 322
266. Modern English bob-wheel stanzas 323