Chapter XVII: Appendix: Table Illustrating the History of the Heroic Couplet

The following table is designed, in the first place, to illustrate the history of the decasyllabic couplet in English verse, by making possible a comparison of the characteristic details of its form in different periods; and, in the second place, to suggest a method by which, through the careful tabulation of facts, one may substantiate or correct general statements as to the qualities of verse.

Any such statistics as are here presented must be accepted, if at all, with no little caution. The table is based on passages of one hundred lines each, believed to be fairly representative of the verse of the several authors. No passage of this length, however, can be known to be perfectly typical. A still greater difficulty is found in the necessarily subjective character of any such tabulation. Most lines of English decasyllabic verse can be read--with reference to the distribution of accents and pauses--in more than one way. It is unlikely, therefore, that any two readers would reach the same results in trying to form a table of this kind. The _absolute_ validity of the figures is therefore doubtful; but on condition that they all have been computed by the same person, consistently with a single standard of judgment, their relative validity, for purposes of _comparison_, may be fairly assumed.

The facts here set down for each specimen of verse group themselves in four divisions. In the first place, each line of verse is either "run-on" or "end-stopped"; and, in riming couplets, it is also of interest to know whether the second line of the couplet is run-on into the following couplet. In the second place, the cesural pause occurs either near the middle of the line or elsewhere, or--it may be--is omitted altogether. In the third place, the line may have a feminine ending. In the fourth place, it may contain some other foot than the regular iambus.

There is some room for difference of judgment as to whether a given line is "end-stopped" or "run-on"; but with occasional exceptions the presence or want of a mark of punctuation may be made the determining element. Obviously one may find such clear phrase-pauses, without punctuation, as will justify the caption "end-stopped."

There is far more divergence of judgment in the recognition of the cesura. Some writers on prosody treat practically every line of ten syllables as having a cesural pause, and certainly some slight phrase-pause may almost always be found. In the following table, however, the cesura has been recognized only when there is a grammatical or rhetorical pause so considerable as--in most cases--to require a mark of punctuation. Such a verse, then, as--

"Fate snatch'd her early to the pitying sky"

is counted as having "no cesura." The cesura is counted as "medial" when occurring after the fourth, fifth, or sixth syllable; elsewhere it is regarded as "variant." The significance of this distinction is very clear in the comparison of the heroic couplet of the "classical" with that of the "romantic" school of poets.[60]

It is in the last group of facts, those relating to substituted feet, that the subjective element is most embarrassing. There can be no very general agreement among readers as to the degree of accent necessary to change a pair of syllables from an "iambus" to a "pyrrhic" or a "spondee." The other two forms of substitution (inverted accent, giving "trochees," and trisyllabic feet, giving "anapests") are somewhat more definitely determinable. In the following table the naming of all these feet is based on what is believed to be the natural reading of the verse, with a due regard for both rhetorical and metrical accent. In the verse--

"By these the springs of property were bent"

the fourth foot is counted a pyrrhic; so also in this--

"Their busy teachers mingled with the Jews,"

although here a certain secondary accent on the eighth syllable is possible. In such a verse as--

"There is a path on the sea's azure floor"

the third foot is counted a pyrrhic and the fourth a spondee.[61]

One may get, then, from a table of this sort, a general view of the character of any particular piece of verse, in respect to the poet's preference for run-on lines, for feminine endings, for breaking the verse into two equal parts, for varying the cesura, or for substituting exceptional feet. The description would be more nearly complete if there were also indicated the _places_ in the verse where substituted feet occur; a trochee in the second foot is a very different thing from one in the first; but it is difficult to tabulate facts of this order without complicating one's results beyond the point of serviceable clearness.

Some students of verse are doubtless offended by the use of statistics in connection with a subject of this kind; and it is easy to ridicule the obvious incongruity of mathematical methods and poetry. A recent magazine critic makes merry over certain statistical studies in rhythm, carried on in a laboratory by recording the beats in nursery-rimes on the one hand and in hymns on the other. "There is a certain class of problems," he observes most justly, "whose external aspects may possibly yield to statistical tabulation, but which in the last resort must be spiritually discerned."[62] Poetry is unquestionably of this class. Yet this would not seem to forbid the study, by scientific methods, of those "external aspects" admittedly susceptible of tabulation. One is not likely to recommend elementary students to count trochees and cesuras in order to increase their appreciation of good verse. But when one comes to the point of generalizing as to the laws or history of verse-forms, it is well to have a method of correction, representable in figures black and white, for the vague impressions which are all that appreciative reading can give. Perhaps the real service of such a method as has just been described is to prevent one from making hasty generalizations which statistics will not support.

Obviously the same system can be applied to blank verse, with the omission of the second category in the table. A convenient method of making such a study is to use sheets of paper ruled for twenty-five lines and seven columns. Each horizontal line represents a line of verse analyzed. The columns are headed "Cesura," "T," "P," "S," "A," "Run-on," and "Fem. Ending." A cesural pause between the third and fourth syllables is indicated by the figures 3/4 in the first column. A trochee in the first foot is indicated by the figure 1 in the "T" column; a spondee in the fourth foot by the figure 4 in the "S" column; and so on. A simple check-mark in the sixth or seventh column indicates respectively a case of _enjambement_ or of feminine ending. When the tabulation is complete, one can easily note the proportion of run-on lines and exceptional cesuras, and can also determine at a glance not only the number of exceptional feet but the parts of the verse in which they occur.

In the following table the figures regarding the couplets of Spenser are based on his _Mother Hubbard's Tale_; those relating to Joseph Hall, on the Satires of his _Virgidemiarum_ (see p. 182); those relating to Leigh Hunt, on _The Story of Rimini_; those relating to Keats, on _Endymion_; to Browning, on _Sordello_.

---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
| Chaucer | |Joseph | |
| (ab. |Spenser | Hall |Jonson |Waller
| 1385) |(1591) |(1597) |(1616) |(ab. 1650)
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
Run-on | | | | |
Lines | 16 | 14 | 10 | 26 | 16
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
Run-on | | | | |
Couplets | 7 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
Medial | | | | |
Cesura | 33 | 31 | 37 | 48 | 50
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
No | | | | |
Cesura | 58 | 64 | 58 | 29 | 42
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
Variant | | | | |
Cesura | 9 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 8
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
Feminine | | | | |
Endings | 64 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
[a] | | | | |
Trochees | 15 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 23
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
[a] | | | | |
Pyrrhics | 26 | 29 | 24 | 35 | 46
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
[a] | | | | |
Spondees | 0 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 14
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------
[a] | | | | |
Anapests | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0
---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------

---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
| | | Leigh | |
|Dryden |Pope | Hunt | Keats |Browning
|(ab. 1680) |(ab. 1725) | (1816) |(1818) |(1840)
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
Run-on | | | | |
Lines | 11 | 4 | 13 | 40 | 58
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
Run-on | | | | |
Couplets | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 27
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
Medial | | | | |
Cesura | 52 | 47 | 46 | 53 | 30
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
No | | | | |
Cesura | 40 | 44 | 35 | 27 | 25
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
Variant | | | | |
Cesura | 8 | 9 | 19 | 20 | 45
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
Feminine | | | | |
Endings | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
[a] | | | | |
Trochees | 15 | 25 | 29 | 29 | 34
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
[a] | | | | |
Pyrrhics | 46 | 27 | 40 | 37 | 34
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
[a] | | | | |
Spondees | 1 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 19
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------
[a] | | | | |
Anapests | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1
---------+-----------+-----------+--------+-------+---------

[a] No account is taken in the table of more than a single occurrence of the same exceptional foot in any one line.

FOOTNOTES:

[60] Here a word of caution is needed. It will be observed that the regularly balanced line of the classical couplet requires not only a medial pause, but also a pause at the end. Hence where we find, as in the verse of Keats, a large number of medial cesuras but at the same time a very large number of "run-on" lines, the characteristic effect of the medial pause is almost entirely lost, and the number of medial pauses is not significant.

[61] This combination (of pyrrhic and spondee) is of course very frequent; and where both substitutions occur together, the general average of accents is maintained, only with exchange of position. On the other hand, where there appears a large number of pyrrhics with almost no spondees (as in the case of Dryden), a different sort of verse is indicated,--one where the lines gain a certain lightness and rapidity from the lack of the full number of fully accented syllables.

[62] "Divination by Statistics," in the _Atlantic Monthly_, January, 1902.

INDEX

_Names of poems are arranged alphabetically under authors. An asterisk in connection with the page number indicates that the poem is quoted at least in part._

_Abraham and Isaac_ (Mystery Play), 112*.

Accents, arbitrary variation of, 400;
conflict of, 7-11;
deficiency in, 55,56;
degrees of, 3-5;
excess of 55, 57;
hovering, 9-11;
inversion of, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.;
kinds of, 3, 6;
relation of different kinds, 7;
relation to quantity, 405 f.;
secondary, 3, 5, 156, 409;
time-intervals of, 11, 393-396;
wrenched, 8-11.

ADDISON: _Campaign_, 199*;
_Cato_, 236*;
on verse of Butler, 167 f.

ÆLFRIC, verse of, 116 f.

AKENSIDE: _Pleasures of the Imagination_, 238;
_Virtuoso_, 104.

ALAMANNI, influence on Wyatt, 65.

ALBERTI, classical metres of, 330.

Alcaic stanza, 77.

Alexandrine, 252-259;
developed by Browning, 258;
French, 18;
in five-stress verse, 195, 208, 258;
in sonnet, 272 f.;
in Spenserian stanza, 103;
unrimed, 255;
used at end of stanzas other than Spenserian, 107.

Alliteration, 113, 116-121;
in mediæval Latin, 117;
sporadic, 135.
"Alliterative long line," 119, 156.

ALSCHER, on Wyatt, 11.

Anacrusis, 25.

Anapest, 24;
substituted for iambus, 58 f.

Anapestic verse, two-stress, 28 f.;
three-stress, 34-36;
four-stress, 39 f.;
five-stress, 42;
six-stress, 43;
seven-stress, 45;
eight-stress, 48;
in _vers de société_, 39.

ANDERSON, M. B.: _Inferno_, 68 f.*.

ANDERSON, R., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182.

Anglo-Saxon verse, alliteration in, 116 f.;
relation of accent and quantity in, 405 f.;
rime in, 124, 125 f.;
stanzas in, 62 n.;
two theories of, 151-154;
types of, 152 f.

ARCHER, W., on Watson's sonnets, 290.

Areopagus, 332 f.

ARISTOPHANES, Swinburne on verse of, 45 f.

ARISTOTLE, his theory of metre, 413-416.

ARNOLD, M.: _East London_, 286*;
_Empedocles on Ætna_, 325-327*;
_Forsaken Merman_, 5*, 22 f.*, 53 f.*;
_Future_, 115*;
on Chapman's septenary, 262;
on English hexameters, 351-353;
on Longfellow's hexameters, 348;
_Sohrab and Rustum_, 58*, 249 f.*.

ARNAUT, the troubadour, sestina of, 383.

"Ascending rhythm," 24.

ASCHAM: _Schoolmaster_, 330, 341.

Asclepiadean verse, 331.

Assonance, 113-115;
in Celtic verse, 115;
in verse of Romance languages, 113 f.

ATTERBURY, on Dryden's influence, 197;
on Waller, 188 f.

_Aurora lucis rutilat_, 160*.

BACON, F., on significant sounds, 136.

BAÏF, DE, A., classical metre of, 331.

Ballade, 360-367.

Ballads, stanza of, 70, 264;
verse of, 10, 157.

BANVILLE, DE, T., 358, 359.

BARBOUR: _Bruce_, 162 f*.

BARCLAY: _Ship of Fooles_, 94.

BARNES: _Parthenophil_, 273.

_Baston_, 83.

BEAUMONT, F.: _Knight of the Burning Pestle_, 263*.

BEAUMONT, J., on heroic couplet, 190 f.;
verse of, 191 n.

BEERS, on heroic stanza, 73.

BENTLEY, on Milton's verse, 58.

_Beowulf_, 13*.

BERNARD (ST.): _De Nativitate Domini_, 80*.

BERNART, DE VENTADORN, 110.

BEST, J. R.: _Bon Rondeau_, 373*.

_Bestiary_, 118*.

_Bewick and Grahame_ (ballad), 157*.

BLAIR: _Grave_, 236 f.*.

Blank verse, 213-251;
abandoned in Restoration drama, 196-199;
early use of term, 215;
in lyrical poems, 246;
its decadence, 230, 234;
revival in 18th century, 238;
unpopular in 18th century, 204 f.

_Blow, northern wind_, 78*.

Bob-wheel, 110 n.

BÖDDEKER: _Altenglische Dichtungen_, cited, 14, 69, 78, 84, 86, 110,
111, 175.

BOLTON, T. L., on nature of rhythm, 393 n.

BOWLES, W. L.: _Sonnet_, 277*;
sonnets of, 278.

BRIGHT, J. W., on "pitch-accent," 5 f.;
theory of metrical accent, 401 n.

BROME, R., blank verse of, 230.

BRONSON, on Greek and English ode, 300;
on odes of Collins, 305.

BROWNING, E. B.: _Cowper's Grave_, 264*;
_Rhyme of the Duchess May_, 80*;
_Sonnets from the Portuguese_, 283*;
sonnets of, 284.

BROWNING, R.: _Abt Vogler_, 50*;
_Agamemnon_, 327 f.*;
blank verse of, 247-249;
_Caliban upon Setebos_, 31 f.*, 57*, 145 f.*;
_Cavalier Tunes_, 40*;
_Epistle of Karshish_, 248*;
_Fifine at the Fair_, 257 f.*;
_Flight of the Duchess_, 129*;
_Fra Lippo Lippi_, 249*;
_Guardian Angel_, 95*;
_Heretic's Tragedy_, 145*;
_In a Balcony_, 248*;
_Love among the Ruins_, 90*;
_Misconceptions_, 37*;
_One Word More_, 41*;
_Pacchiarotto_, 128 f.*;
_Paracelsus_, 8*, 59*, 145*;
_Prospice_, 29*, 50*;
_Ring and the Book_, 57*, 59*, 247*;
_Saul_, 42*;
sonnets of, 286, 287;
_Sordello_, 211*;
_Statue and the Bust_, 67*;
_Why I am a Liberal_, 287*.

BÜCHER, K.: _Labor and Rhythm_, 436 n.

BURNS: _Auld Lang Syne_, 21*;
_Birks of Aberfeldy_, 78*;
_Bonnie Doon_, 70*;
_Chevalier's Lament_, 39*;
_Cotter's Saturday Night_, 104*;
_Duncan Gray_, 79*;
_Tam O'Shanter_, 171*;
_To a Louse_, 87*.

BUTCHER, S. H., on Aristotle's view of metre, 413-416.

BUTLER: _Hudibras_, 137*, 167*.

BYRON: _Childe Harold_, 105*;
_Destruction of Sennacherib_, 39*;
_Don Juan_, 100*, 128*;
double rimes of, 128, 129;
_English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_, 206*;
_Farewell, if ever_, 97*;
_Francesca of Rimini_, 68*;
_Prisoner of Chillon_, 171*;
_She Walks in Beauty_, 92*;
_Song of Saul_, 40*;
_Stanzas for Music_, 44*;
use of _ottava rima_, 101.

CAMPION, T.: _Anacreontics_, 27*;
_Iambic Dimeter_, 334 f.*;
_Observations in the Art of English Poesie_, 335 f.;
_Trochaic Dimeter_, 335*.

CANNING: _Rovers_, 131*.

CANNING (and FRERE): _Sapphics_, 337*.

_Canzone_, influence of, on the sonnet, 267.

CAREW: _In Praise of his Mistress_, 89*.

CAREY, P.: _Triolet_, 382 f.*.

Catalexis, 22, 25;
in the ode, 319.

CATULLUS, metres of, imitated, 339.

Caudated sonnet, 276.

Celtic verse, alliteration in, 117;
assonance in, 115;
rime in, 124.

Cesura, 17-19;
in alexandrine, 253, 258;
kinds of, 19.

_Chant Royal_, 367 f.

CHAPMAN: _All Fools_, 215*;
_Hymn to Cynthia_, 343*;
_Iliad_, 262*.

CHATTERTON: _Ælla_, 79*, 107 f.*;
his variant of Spenserian stanza, 108.

CHAUCER: _Balade de bon conseyl_, 360f.*;
_Balade on Gentilesse_, 362;
_Balade to Rosemound_, 362;
_Complaint to his Empty Purse_, 362;
_Compleynt of Venus_, 362;
_Compleynte unto Pite_, 93*, 177, 178;
decasyllabic verse of, 177-179;
_Fortune_, 362;
free cesura in verse of, 17;
French lyrical forms used by, 362;
_House of Fame_, 165 f.*;
influence on form of Spenserian stanza, 103;
_Knights Tale_, 138 f.*;
_Lak of Stedfastnesse_, 362;
_Legend of Good Women_, 176* (ballade in, 362);
_Monk's Tale_, 97*;
octosyllabic couplet of, 166;
omission of opening syllable in verse of, 20;
on alliteration, 120;
_Parlement of Foules_, 369*;
perfect rime in, 121 n.;
_Prologue_, 20*, 176*;
_Proverb_, 71*;
"rime royal" introduced by, 94;
_Sir Thopas_, 84*.

_Chevy Chase_ (ballad), 70*.

Choral odes, 323-328.

Choriambus, 408.

_Cid, Poema del_, 114*.

Classical metres, imitations of, 330-357.

CLOUGH, A. H.: _Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich_, 350*;
hexameter of, 351;
his analysis of a line of blank verse, 403.

COLERIDGE: _Ancient Mariner_, 133*, 263*;
_Christabel_, 15*, 401*;
_Fancy in Nubibus_, 296*;
hexameters of, 346;
his theory of metre, 420-422;
_Hymn before Sunrise_, 241*;
_Hymn to the Earth_, 345 f.*;
_Kubla Khan_, 138*, 147*;
_Ode on the Departing Year_, 311*;
on sonnet of White, 281;
on sonnets of Bowles, 278;
sonnets of, 296;
_To a Friend_, 75*.

COLLINS: _Ode to Evening_, 246;
_Ode to Liberty_, 170*, 303 f.*;
on verse of Skelton, 32;
_Passions_, 310*.

"Common metre," 261 f.

_Confessio Goliae_, 259*.

CONGREVE: _Discourse on Pindaric Ode_, 302 f.;
_Pindaric Ode_, 301 f.*.

Consonants, as lengthening English syllables, 396-399.

CONSTABLE: _Diana_, 273.

CORSON, on blank verse of Browning, 247 f.;
on double rime, 129 f.;
on _In Memoriam_ stanza, 76 f.;
on Mrs. Browning's sonnets, 284;
on _ottava rima_, 98, 99;
on rime, 122;
on Spenserian stanza of Keats, 105;
on variety in verse movement, 61;
on verse of Cowper, 240;
on Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, 313 f.

COTTON, C.: _Rondeau_, 372 f.*;
Virelai of, 385.

Couplet (see under Decasyllabic and Octosyllabic).

COURTHOPE, on Aristotle's view of metre, 415;
on the sonnet, 268, 272;
on verse-form in poetry, 429-432;
on verse of Pope, 201;
on verse of Surrey, 216.

COWLEY, Congreve on the odes of, 303;
introduction of irregular ode by, 308;
_Resurrection_, 307 f.*;
_Solitude_, 88*.

Cowleyan ode, 298, 307-323.

COWPER: _Alexander Selkirk_, 34*;
anapests of, 35;
blank verse of, 240 f.;
_John Gilpin_, 264;
_My Mary_, 79*;
on Milton's verse, 58 f.;
_Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin_, 278*;
_Table Talk_, 205*;
_Task_, 239 f.*.

CRABBE: _Borough_, 206f.*.

CRASHAW: _Wishes for the Supposed Mistress_, 64*.

_Creation and Fall_ (Mystery Play), 95*.

Cretic, 31.

"Crown of Sonnets," 275.

CYNEWULF: _Crist_, 116*;
_Elene_, rime in, 126 n.;
Riddle of (strophic), 63 n.

Dactyl, 24.

Dactylic verse, two-stress, 30;
three-stress, 37;
four-stress, 40;
five-stress, 42;
six-stress, 44;
seven-stress, 46;
eight-stress, 48.

DANIEL: _Care-charmer Sleep_, 291 f.*;
_Civil War_, 99*;
_Defence of Rime_, 33 n.;
_Delia_, 273, 292.

DANTE, _terza rima_ of, 65, 67-69.

DAVENANT: _Gondibert_, 71*, 72.

DAVIES, Sir J.: _Nosce Teipsum_, 73.

Decasyllabic couplet, 174-213;
Chaucer's, 177;
in Elizabethan age, 190;
in the drama, 196-199;
of the romantic poets, 209f., 212;
Saintsbury on qualities of, 194f.

_De Muliere Samaritana_, 253*.

DENHAM: _Against Love_, 63*;
_Cooper's Hill_, 191f.*.

_Deo Gracias_, 96*.

_Deor's Lament_, 62n.

DE QUINCEY, on Milton's verse, 233n.

"Descending rhythm," 25.

DESCHAMPS, 358.

DOBSON, A., ballades of, 367;
_Dance of Death_, 368;
on French lyrical forms, 358f.;
on _ottava rima_, 101;
on Pope, 203;
_Rose Leaves_, 381f.*;
_Too Hard it is to Sing_, 269f.*;
_When I Saw you Last, Rose_, 378*;
_With Pipe and Flute_, 374*.

DONNE, critics on the verse of, 183;
_Holy Sonnets_, 274f.*;
influence of, on lyrical forms of 17th century, 90;
_La Corona_, 275;
_Satires_, 183*.

DOUGLAS, G.: _Palace of Honour_, 101*, 133*.

DOWDEN, on Shakspere's verse, 184.

Drama, rime in, 184;
verse of, characteristic, 395.

DRAYTON: _Agincourt_, 86*;
_Amouret Anacreontic_, 26*;
_Idea_, 273, 293;
_Love's Farewell_, 292*;
_Polyolbion_, 256f.*.

DRUMMOND, W.: _Sonnet_, 274*.

DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel_, 56f.*, 193f.*;
_Alexander's Feast_, 310;
_All for Love_, 196, 234*;
_Annus Mirabilis_, 72*;
blank verse of, 234f.;
_Conquest of Granada_, 196;
_Evening's Love_, 40*;
heroic couplet of, 194f.;
his introduction of rimed dramatic verse, 196-199;
_Indian Queen_, 196;
_Marriage à la Mode_, 195f.*, 234*;
_Ode for St. Cecilia's Day_, imitated by Young, 88;
_Ode on Mistress Killigrew_, 309f.*;
odes of, 310;
on heroic stanza, 72;
on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
on verse of Donne, 183;
_Song for St. Cecilia's Day_, 52f.*, 142*.

DU BARTAS: _La Première Semaine_, 18*.

DUNBAR: _Lament for the Makaris_, 78*;
rime royal of, 94;
_Tua Mariit Wemen_, 119f.*.

EDWARDS, T., sonnets of, 277.

Elegiacs (hexameter and pentameter), 346, 355f.

_Eleven Pains of Hell_, 161.

ELIOT, GEORGE: _Spanish Gypsy_, 28*, 37*, 114*.

Elision, 59f.

ELLIS, A. J., on degrees of accent, 3, 4n.

ELLIS, R.:
_Attis_, 339*;
_Hymenæus of Catullus_, 339*;
on classical metres, 339.

"End-stopped" lines, 19, 187-190.

_Enjambement_, 19:
avoidance of in heroic verse, 187, 202;
in Chaucer, 177;
in couplets of the romantic poets, 208-212;
in Milton, 233;
in Shakspere's verse, 223.

ETHEREDGE: _Comical Revenge_, 196.

_Fair Helen_ (ballad), 9*, 79*.

_Farmer's Complaint_, 14.

Feet, as measures of verse, 24;
combinations and substitutions of, 49;
names of, 24, 55f., 408f.

Feminine ending, 25, 33;
in Elizabethan blank verse, 226-228.

Feminine rime, 121, 128f.

FITZGERALD: _Rubáiyát_, 77*.

Five-stress verse, 174-251;
early examples of, 175;
introduced by Chaucer, 177.

FLETCHER, G.: _Lycia_, 273.

FLETCHER, J., blank verse of, 226-228;
couplets of, 210;
_Faithful Shepherdess_, 184f.*;
_Valentinian_, 225*.

FLETCHER, J. (and SHAKSPERE): _Two Noble Kinsmen_, 85*.

FLETCHER, J. B., on Spenser, 17.

FLETCHER, P.: _Piscatory Eclogues_, 107*.

Foot, significance of the term, 24, 393-395, 406-408.

_Fortunae rota volvitur_, 259*.

Four-stress verse, 151-173.

French alexandrine, relation to English, 252f.

French influence, on stanza forms, 63, 82f., 110.

French lyrical forms, imitation of, 358-385.

French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.;
influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190;
perfect rime in, 121 n.;
regular cesura in, 17, 18;
influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f., 163 n.

French words, accent of, 11.

FRERE, J. H.: _Monks and the Giants_, 100*.

FROISSART, 358.

Galliambic verse, 339.

_Gammer Gurton's Needle_, 133*, 157*.

GASCOIGNE: _Notes of Instruction_ cited, 17, 94 n., 265, 291 n.;
_Steel Glass_, 18*, 218.

GASCOIGNE (and KINWELMARSHE): _Jocasta_, 218.

GAY, J.: _Fables_, 168f.*.

_Genesis and Exodus_, 162*.

German hexameters, influence of, 345, 349.

Germanic verse, alliteration in, 116f.;
avoidance of syllable-counting in, 151;
irregular time-intervals in, 12.

GLOVER: _Leonidas_, 238.

GODRIC (ST.): _Sainte Marie_, 126*;
verse of, 161.

_God Ureisun_, 118*.

GOETHE, hexameters of, 345, 349;
his view of metre in the drama, 418 n.

GOLDSMITH: _Deserted Village_, 204*;
Essay on Versification, 336;
on blank verse, 205;
_Retaliation_, 39*.

GOLLANCZ, I., on the stanza of _The Pearl_, 109.

GOODELL, T. G.: _Quantity in English Verse_, 406.

GOSSE, E.: _After Anyte of Tegea_, 370*;
_Ballad of Dead Cities_, 364*;
on Cowleyan ode, 309;
on decadent blank verse, 230;
on Dryden's blank verse, 235;
on heroic stanza, 73;
on ode, 298;
on rime in the drama, 197;
on sonnet of Walsh, 277;
on verse of Denham, 192;
on verse of Goldsmith, 204;
on verse of Oldham, 193;
on verse of Parnell, 168;
on verse of Swift, 170;
on verse of Waller and contemporaries, 189, 190, 191 n.;
_Praise of Dionysus_, 368;
_Sestina_, 384 f.*;
_Villanelle_, 379 f.*.

GOWER, ballades of, 362;
_Confessio Amantis_, 165*;
couplets of, 166.

_Grace of God_, 71*.

GRAUNSON, French ballades of, 362.

GRAY: _Bard_, 307;
_Elegy in a Churchyard_, 72*;
on verse of Dryden, 194;
_Progress of Poesy_, 306 f.*;
_Sonnet on West_, 295 f.*.

Greek ode, imitated in English, 300, 323-328.

GREENE: _Morando_, 219.

GREIN, on Riming Poem, 126 n.

GRIMALD: _Death of Zoroas_, 218.

GRIMM, on rime, 124.

GUEST, on Poulter's Measure, 265;
on significance of sounds, 136.

GUMMERE, F. B., on early English five-stress verse, 180;
on rhythm in poetry, 433-436.

GURNEY, E., on Browning's rimes, 129 f.;
on the function of metre in poetry, 427-429.

HALL, J.: _Virgidemiarum_, 182*, 343*.

HAMMOND, J.: _Love Elegies_, 73.

HARVEY, G., influence on imitation of classical metres, 332 f.

_Havelok the Dane_, 164*.

HAWES, rime royal of, 94.

HAWTREY, hexameter of, 351, 352*, 354.

HAZLITT, W., on verse-form in poetry, 423-425.

HEGEL, on metre in poetry, 427.

_Heliand_, 124.

HENLEY, W. E.: _Easy is the Triolet_, 381*;
_Villanelle_, 378 f.*;
_Ways of Death_, 370 f.*;
_What is to Come_, 375*.

HERBERT, G.: _Gifts of God_, 90*;
_Sonnet on Sin_, 295*.

HERDER, on rime, 123.

HERENC: _Doctrinal_, 252.

HERFORD, on verse of Leigh Hunt, 208.

Heroic couplet (see Decasyllabic couplet).

Heroic stanza, 71-73.

HERRICK: _His Poetry his Pillar_, 27*;
_His Recantation_, 26*;
_Thanksgiving to God_, 90*;
_To Julia_, 64*;
_To the Lark_, 26*;
_Upon his Departure_, 25*.

Hexameter (dactylic), 340-356.

_Hildebrandlied_, 124, 152.

HILL, A.: _Praise of Blank Verse_, 239 n.*.

HOBBES: _Homer_, 73.

HOLMES, O. W.: _Chambered Nautilus_, 108*;
on heroic couplet, 203 n.

Hom[oe]oteleuton, relation to rime, 125.

HOOD, T.: _Bridge of Sighs_, 30*, 130*.

HORACE, stanza of, imitated, 77.

Horatian ode, 298.

Hudibrastic couplet, 167.

HUGO, V., pantoums of, 386.

HUNT, L., on Coleridge's verse, 16 n.;
on sonnets of Bowles, 278;
on sonnets of Drummond, 274;
on verse-form in poetry, 425 f.;
_Story of Rimini_, 207 f.*;
_The Fish to the Man_, 283*;
_Wealth and Womanhood_, 266*.

_Hymn to the Virgin_ ("Blessed beo thu"), 260*;
("Of on that is"), 87*.

Hypermetrical syllables, 58-60.

Iambic verse, one-stress, 25;
two-stress, 26 f.;
three-stress, 32 f.;
four-stress, 160-173;
five-stress, 174-251;
six-stress, 252-258;
seven-stress, 44 f., 260-264;
eight-stress, 46.

Iambus, 24;
substituted for trisyllabic foot, 60.

Inclusive rime, 74-76.

INGELOW, J.: _Give us Love and Give us Peace_, 49*.

_In Memoriam_ stanza, 76.

Inversion of accent, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.

Italian sonnet, 267-271.

Italian verse, influence on Chaucer, 178 f.;
rimes in, 130;
_terza rima_ derived from, 65.

JAMES I. (of England): _Reulis and Cautelis_ cited, 94 n., 120, 157 n.

JAMES I. (of Scotland): _King's Quhair_, 93*.

_Jesu for thi muchele miht_, 111*.

JOHNSON, S.: _London_, 205;
on blank verse, 205;
on Cowleyan ode, 308 f.;
on Dryden's Killigrew Ode, 310;
on tone-color, 137;
on verse-form in poetry, 417;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, 205.

JONSON, B.: _Elegy_, 74*;
_Epigrams_, 185*;
_Epitaph_, 92*;
_Epitaph on Salathiel Pavey_, 71*;
_Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme_, 123;
influence on classical school of verse, 186;
_Pindaric Ode_, 299 f.*;
_Sad Shepherd_, 225;
_Sejanus_, 224*.

_Judas_, 254.

KAWCZYNSKI, on alliteration, 117;
on origin of alexandrine, 252.

KEATS: _Chapman's Homer_, 282;
_Endymion_, 209*;
_Eve of St. Agnes_, 105*;
_Grasshopper and Cricket_, 282*;
_Hyperion_, 242*;
_Isabella_, 100*;
_Lamia_, 8*;
_Mermaid Tavern_, 38*;
_Ode to Psyche_, 143*;
Sonnets of, 282;
_Sonnet to Haydon_, 22*.

KENT, A. J., on verse of Leigh Hunt, 208 f.

_King Horn_, 154*.

KINGSLEY, C.: _Andromeda_, 354*.

KIPLING, R.: _Last Chantey_, 21 f.*;
_Mulholland's Contract_, 65*;
_Song of the English_, 49*;
_Wolcott Balestier_, 44 f.*.

KITTREDGE, G. L., on French decasyllabic couplet, 178.

LACHMANN, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 151 f.

LANDOR: _Children Playing in a Churchyard_, 64*;
_English Hexameters_, 353*;
on Milton's sonnets, 276.

LANG, A.: _Ballade of Primitive Man_, 365 f.*;
_Ballades of Blue China_, 363, 365, 366;
on Pope, 202 f.

LANGLAND: _Piers Plowman_, 119*.

LANGTOFT, P. DE, Chronicle of, 82.

LANIER, S.: _Ballad of Trees and the Master_, 131*;
his theory of English verse, 391-393, 400;
_Science of English Verse_ cited, 21, 49.

LARMINIE, W., on assonance, 115;
on quantity in English, 399;
on rime, 123.

Latin _septenarius_, 259;
relation to ballad metre, 264.

Latin verse, influence on octosyllabic couplet, 160f.;
influence on stanza, 63;
rime in, 124 f.;
used with Anglo-Saxon, 153.

LAYAMON: _Brut_, 118*, 127*;
verse of, 119.

Lays, four-stress couplet in, 164 f.

LE GALLIENNE, R., irregular verse of, burlesqued, 329 n.

_Legend-Cycle_, 255.

LEGOUIS, E., on Spenser's verse, 17.

_Lenten ys come_, 111*.

LENTZNER, on the sonnet, 268, 286, 287.

Leonine rime, 132.

LEWIS, C. M., on octosyllabic couplet, 160 f.;
on sources of Chaucer's verse, 179.

LIDDELL, M., his theories of English verse, 394 f., 401 n., 407.

LINDSAY, D.: _Satyre of the Three Estates_, 85*.

_Little Soth Sermun_, 261.

LLOYD, R., verses against blank verse, 239 n.*.

LODGE: _Phyllis_, 273.

LOK, sonnets of, 273.

LONGFELLOW: _Evangeline_, 348*;
_Golden Legend_, 48*, 51*;
hexameters of, 348 f., 355;
_Hiawatha_, 37*, 408;
_Maidenhood_, 64*;
_Saga of King Olaf_, 30 f.*;
_Sonnets on Divina Commedia_, 289*.

_Love in Idleness_, pantoum from, 386-388*.

LOWELL: _Commemoration Ode_, 317*;
on Gray's _Progress of Poesy_, 307;
on Spenserian stanza, 103.

LUICK, on revival of alliterative verse, 156.

_Lutel wot hit anymon_, 174 f.*.

LYDGATE, rime royal of, 94.

LYLY: _Woman in the Moon,_ 219.

Lyrical verse characteristic, 395.

Lyrics, complex measures of early English, 110 f.

MACAULAY, G. C., on verse of Fletcher, 227 n.

MACDONALD, G.: _Triolet_, 383*.

MACHAULT, 178, 358.

Malaysian verse, pantoum derived from, 386.

MALHERBE, influence on heroic verse, 187.

MANNING, R.: _Chronicle_, 82*, 254*;
_Handlying Synne,_ 163*;
simplifying of French metrical forms by, 82 f.

MARLOWE, blank verse of, 221;
couplets of, 210;
_Faustus_, 57*, 219 f.*;
_Hero and Leander_, 181*, 190;
_Jew of Malta_, 139*;
_Tamburlaine_, 219*.

_Marriage of Wit and Science_, 255 f.*.

MASON, W., sonnets of, 277.

MASSINGER, blank verse of, 230;
_New Way to Pay Old Debts_, 229*.

MASSON, on Milton's tailed sonnet, 276.

MAYOR, J. B.: _Chapters on English Metre_ cited, 409;
on Browning's blank verse, 249;
on Ellis's view of accent, 4 n.;
on substitutions of feet, 60.

MEREDITH, G.: _Phaëthon_, 339.

Metre, its place and function in poetry, 413-436.

Metrical romances, tail-rime in, 84.

MEYER, C. F., on rime, 123, 124.

MIDDLETON, blank verse of, 228;
_Changeling_, 227*.

MILL, J. S., on rhythm in poetry, 433.

MILTON: _At a Solemn Music_, 329;
blank verse of, 232 f.;
_Il Penseroso_, 166 f.*;
_L'Allegro_, 38*;
_Lycidas_, 99*, 142*;
_Nativity Ode_, 33*, 107*;
_On his Blindness_, 275*;
_On Time_, 329;
_Paradise Lost_, 4*, 7*, 15*, 57*, 58*, 59*, 140*, 141*, 230 f.*;
_Passion_, 94;
_Psalm II_., 66*;
_Psalm VI_., 74*;
_Samson Agonistes_, 231 f.*, 323-325*;
_Sonnet on Piedmont Massacre_, 141*;
sonnets of, 276.

MINOT, L.: _Battle of Halidon Hill_, 96*.

_Misfortunes of Arthur_, 219.

MITCHELL, S. WEIR: _Psalm of the Waters_, 36*.

MOLZA, FRANCESCO, 216.

"_Monk's Tale_ stanza," 97.

_Monologue d'outre Tombe_, 386*.

MOODY, W. V.: _Menagerie_, 91*;
_Ode in Time of Hesitation_, 321-323*.

MOORE, T.: _Believe me, if all those endearing young charms_, 40*;
_Down in yon Summervale_, 121 n.*;
_Go Where Glory Waits Thee_, 33 f.*.

MORRIS, R., on early octosyllabic verse, 162.

MORRIS, W.: _Earthly Paradise_, 93 f.*, 173*;
_Fair Spring Morning_, 329;
_Folk-Mote by the River_, 159*;
_Jason_, 213*.

MOULTON, R. G., on Browning's _Caliban_, 32.

MOUSSET, classical metres of, 331.

Music, its relation to verse, 391-396, 407 n., 413 f., 434-436.

_Must I be Carried to the Skies_, 262*.

Mystery plays, verse of, 94 f., 112, 265.

NASH, T., on English hexameters, 342;
Preface to _Menaphon_, 215.

_Ne mai no lewed_, etc., 109 f.*.

NEWCOMER, A. G., on wrenched accent, 10.

NEWMAN, metre of his _Iliad_ translation, 262.

NORDEN, on rime, 125.

Norse verse, influence on Anglo-Saxon, 126;
stanza in, 63.

_Nutbrowne Maide_ (ballad), 132*.

OCCLEVE, rime royal of, 94.

Octosyllabic couplet, 160-173.

Ode (The), 298-329.

OLDHAM, J.: _Satires upon the Jesuits_, 192*.

Onomatop[oe]ia, 135 f.

_Ormulum_, 260*.

O'SHAUGHNESSY, A.: _Fountain of Tears_, 36*.

OTFRIED, verse of, 123, 124.

_Ottava rima,_ 98-101;
possible source of sonnet, 267.

OTWAY: _Venice Preserved_, 235*.

_Owl and the Nightingale_, 162*.

Pantoum, 385-388.

PARIS, G., on Machault, 178.

PARNELL: _Night-Piece on Death_, 168*.

PASSERAT, J.: _Villanelle_, 377*.

_Passion of our Lord_, 254.

_Pater Noster_, 161*.

_Patience_, 155*.

PATMORE: _Amelia_, 319 n.*;
_Ode_, 318*;
on the ode, 319;
_Unknown Eros_, 319.

Pauses, 16-23;
varied to preserve metrical time, 404 f.

PAYNE, J., virelai of, 385.

PEACOCK, T. L.: _Misfortunes of Elphin_, 33*.

_Pearl, The,_ 109*.

PECK, S. M.: _Under the Rose_, 382*.

PEELE: _Arraignment of Paris_, 218*.

PETRARCA: _Sonnet_, 271*.

Phalæcian verse, 331, 338.

PHILIPS, J.: _Cider_, 238.

PHILLIPS, S.: _Marpessa_, 251;
_Paolo and Francesca_, 250 f.*.

_Ph[oe]nix_, 153*.

Pindaric ode, 298, 299-307.

Pitch-accent, so-called, 5 f.

PITT, W., 131 n.

POE: _Lenore_, 134*;
on English hexameter, 349;
_Rationale of Verse_, 392;
_Raven_, 47*.

_Poema Morale_, 127*, 260.

POPE, A.: _Essay on Criticism_, 12*, 57*, 142*, 199 f.*;
_Iliad_, 200 f.*;
on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
on verse of Dryden, 194;
rules of verse, 201 f.;
_Solitude_, 27*.

Poulter's Measure, 255, 265 f.

Pre-Raphaelites, 10.

_Preservation of King Henry VII_., 343.

PRIOR: _Better Answer_, 39*.

Provençal, lyrical forms of, 358, 383.

PUTTENHAM, G.: _Arte of English Poesie_ cited, 8 n., 18, 94 n., 334 n.

Pyrrhic, 49, 55, 56.

Quantity in English, 391-406;
in English verse, 330, 332 f., 338, 354 f., 356, 357.

Quatrains, 69-77.

_Quinque Gaudia_, 85*.

RALEIGH, W.: _Pilgrim to Pilgrim_, 35*.

RANCHIN: _Triolet_, 381*.

READ, T. B.: _Drifting_, 88*.

Refrain stanzas, 78-90.

_Regulae de Rhythmis_, 81*.

Rhythm, arts of, 413 f.;
change of, 53-55, 61.

_Rhythmus_, meaning of, 124.

RICH, B.: _Don Simonides_, 219.

RIEGER, on rime in Anglo-Saxon, 126 n.

Rime, 113, 121-135;
as organizer of stanza, 63;
broken, 131 f.;
defended by Daniel, 336 n.;
feminine, 121, 128 f.;
functions of, 122;
imperfect, 122 n.;
in Butler's _Hudibras_, 167 f.;
in drama, 196-199;
internal, 132-135
(in ballads, 70;
in Middle English alexandrines, 255;
in septenary, 259-261);
objections to, 122 f.;
origin of, 123-125;
suspected by classicists, 214, 232, 330;
triple, 121, 128-131.

_Rime couée_, 80-86;
in French, 81;
in Latin, 80 f.

Rime royal, 93 f.;
in Chaucer's _Balade_, 361.

_Riming Poem_ (Anglo-Saxon), 125 f.*.

ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER: _Chronicle_, 265.

ROBERTSON, J. M., his theories of English verse, 24 n., 392-394,
400, 403.

_Robin Hood_ (ballad), 70*, 263*.

_Roland, Chanson de_, 113 f.*.

Romance languages, assonance in, 113.

Romance metres, regular time-intervals in, 12, 14 n.

Rondeau, 368, 371-376.

Rondel, 368-371.

ROSSETTI: _Ballad of Dead Ladies_, 362 f.*;
_Blessed Damozel_, 7*;
_House of Life_, 284*, 285*;
_Love's Nocturn_, 146*;
_My Sister's Sleep_, 75*;
on Drayton's sonnet, 293;
_Penumbra_, 135*;
_Rose Mary_, 91*;
_Sister Helen_, 80*;
sonnets of, 285;
_Sunset Wings_, 89*;
_To Death_ (rondeau), 374*;
_Willowwood_, 9*.

Roundel, in Chaucer, 369;
Swinburne's form of, 376.

ROWLANDS, S., verse of, 190.

"Run-on" lines, 19 (see also _Enjambement_).

RUSSELL, T., sonnets of, 277.

SACKVILLE: _Mirror for Magistrates_, 94.

SACKVILLE (and NORTON): _Gorboduc_, 217*.

SAINTSBURY, on alexandrine, 258 f.;
on Blair, 237;
on Dryden's couplet, 194 f.;
on Dryden's dactyls, 40;
on heroic stanza, 73;
on Shenstone, 35 f.;
on Thomson, 238.

SANDYS, G., heroic couplets of, 189 f., 191;
influence on Pope's verse, 201;
_Metamorphoses_, 191*;
_Paraphrase of Luke_, 63*.

Satire, heroic couplet in, 181, 182, 183, 206.

_Satire on People of Kildare_, 91*.

Scandinavian verse, influence in England, 126.

SCHELLING, F. E., on Campion's classical metres, 335 f.;
on influence of Jonson's verse, 186;
on Raleigh's anapests, 35.

SCHILLER, elegiac distich of, 346;
on rhythm in the drama, 433.

SCHIPPER, on accent, 3;
on Anglo-Saxon alliteration, 117;
on early imitation of classical verse, 330 f.;
on Layamon, 119;
on the octosyllabic couplet, 161;
on Poulter's Measure, 265;
on rime, 123-125;
on rime in Cynewulf, 126 n.;
on rime royal, 94;
on _Riming Poem_, 126;
on Romance stanza-forms, 110 f.;
on the sonnet, 270;
on the stanza, 62;
on tumbling verse, 158 n.;
on types of alexandrine, 255;
on "unaccented rime," 121 n.

SCHLEGEL., A. W., on tone-color, 137.

SCHRÖER, on early blank verse, 218.

SCOLLARD, C.: _Villanelle_, 380*.

SCOTT, W.: _Hunting Song_, 13*;
_Lady of the Lake_, 29*, 172*.
_Scottish Field_ (ballad), 120 f.*.

Scottish verse, alliteration in, 120.

_Sdruciolla_, 215.

SEAMAN, O.: _Battle of the Bays_, 329 n.*.

Septenary, 259-264;
in drama, 218;
internal rime in, 132;
mingled with alexandrine, 252, 253 f., 261, 265;
unrimed, 260, 262.

SERAFINO: _Strambotti_, 272.

Sestina, 383-385.

SHAKSPERE: _As You Like It_, 57*;
blank verse of, 223 f.;
_Henry V._, 140*;
heroic verse of, 184;
_It was a lover_, etc., 9*;
_Julius Cæsar_, 58*;
_King John_, 20*;
_Love's Labor's Lost_, 38*, 183 f.*;
_Macbeth_, 20*;
_Measure for Measure_, 20*, 222*;
_Merchant of Venice_, 57*;
_Midsummer Night's Dream_, 26*, 31*, 139*;
_Much Ado_, 215;
_Ph[oe]nix and the Turtle_, 63*, 74*;
_Rape of Lucrece_, 93*;
_Richard II._, 20*;
_Romeo and Juliet_, 7*, 57*;
_Sonnets_, 293*, 294*;
sonnets of, 294 f.;
_Tempest_, 37*, 222 f.*;
_Troilus and Cressida_, 138*;
_Twelfth Night_, 51 f.*;
_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 221*;
_Venus and Adonis_, 92*.

SHAKSPERE (and FLETCHER): _Two Noble Kinsmen_, 85*.

SHARP, W., on the sonnet, 268 n.

SHELLEY: _Adonais_, 105 f.*;
_Alastor_, 243*;
_Arethusa_, 28*;
_Epipsychidion_, 210*;
_Flight of Love_, 50 f.*;
heroic verse of, 210;
_Ode to Naples_, 314 f.*;
_Ode to West Wind_, 66 f.*;
_Ozymandias_, 281 f.*;
_Queen Mab_, 329;
_Sensitive Plant_, 69*;
sonnets of, 282;
_To a Skylark_, 34*;
use of Spenserian stanza, 106;
view of verse-form in poetry, 422 f.

SHENSTONE, heroic stanza of, 73;
_Pastoral Ballad_, 35*;
_Schoolmistress_, 104.

SHERMAN, F. D.: _Ballade to Austin Dobson_, 366 f.*.

SIDNEY: _Anacreontics_, 332*;
_Asclepiadics_, 331*;
_Astrophel and Stella_, 74*, 77*, 256*, 272*, 273*, 291*;
_Dorus and Zelmane_, 340 f.*;
hexameters of, 341;
_Mopsa_, 266*;
_Phaleuciakes_, 331*;
_Psalm VIII_., 69*;
sonnets of, 273;
_Thyrsis and Dorus_, 65 f.*;
view of verse-form in poetry, 416 f.

SIEVERS, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 152 f.;
on stanzaic and stichic verse, 63.

_Sir Fyrumbras_, 261*.

_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_, 109, 155 f.*.

SKALAGRIMSSON, Egil, 126.

SKEAT, on sources of Chaucer's couplet, 178;
theory of English verse, 394 n.

SKELTON: _Colyn Cloute_, 32*;
rime royal of, 94.

_Song of Songs_ (French version), 81*.

Sonnet, 267-297;
bipartite structure of, 268, 270, 280, 282, 285, 286, 290, 293;
English form of, 290;
Italian form of, 270;
revived in 18th century, 277;
sequences, 273;
"Ten Commandments" of, 268 n.

Sonnets on the sonnet, 278, 279, 284, 288.

Sound-qualities of verse made expressive of sense, 135-137.

SOUTHEY: _Curse of Kehama_, 329;
hexameters of, 347 f.;
_Sapphics_, 337*;
_Vision of Judgment_, 347*.

Spanish verse, 28, 115;
assonance in, 114.

SPEDDING, J., on English hexameter, 351.

SPENSER: _Amoretti_, 293*;
_Faerie Queene_, 102*;
free cesura in, 17;
interest in classical metres, 332 f.;
_Mother Hubbard's Tale_, 181*;
_Shepherd's Calendar_, 15*, 89*, 158 f.*, 179 f.*;
_Tetrasticon_, 332*;
tumbling verse of, 159;
unrimed sonnets of, 219;
_Virgil's Gnat_, 98 f.*.

Spenserian sonnet, 293*.

Spenserian stanza, 102-106;
stanzas influenced by, 107 f.

Spondee, 56, 57.

STANYHURST, R.: _Æneid_, 341 f.*;
hexameters of, 342 f.

Stanzas, 62-112;
complex forms of, under French influence, 110;
formed by refrains, 78;
how determined and described, 62;
tail-rime, 80-86.

STEDMAN, E. C., on rhythm in poetry, 432 f.

STENGEL, on French alexandrine, 252;
on French decasyllabic verse, 177 f.;
on octosyllabic verse, 160.

STETSON, C. P.: _A Man Must Live_, 375 f.*.

STEVENSON, R. L., on tone-color, 138.

Stichic verse, 62.

STILLINGFLEET, B., sonnets of, 277.

_Stond wel, moder_, 84*.

STONE, W. J.: _Odyssey_, 356*;
on quantity in English verse, 356 f.

Stress (see Accent).

Substitution of feet, 55-61.

SUCKLING: _A Soldier_, 86*.

_Suete iesu, king of blysse_, 69*.

SURREY, EARL OF, accents in verse of, 10;
_Æneid_, 215 f.*;
_How no Age is Content_, 266*;
inventor of English sonnet, 290;
_Psalm LV_., 255*;
_Restless State of a Lover_, 71*;
_Sonnet_, 290*;
verse of, 216.

SWIFT: _Death of Dr. Swift_, 169 f.*.

SWINBURNE: _Armada_, 51*, 134*;
_Atalanta in Calydon_, 9*, 146*;
_Ballad of François Villon_, 367*;
_Birds_, 45*;
_Century of Roundels_, 42*;
_Choriambics_, 340*;
_Death of Wagner_, 60*;
_Garden of Cymodoce_, 43*;
_Hendecasyllabics_, 338;
_Hesperia_, 44*;
_Last Oracle_, 43*;
_Laus Veneris_, 78*;
_Leper_, 9*;
_March_, 13*, 48*;
_Night in Guernsey_, 47*;
on choral ode of Milton, 325;
on English hexameters, 353 f.;
on sonnets of Wordsworth, 280;
_On the Cliffs_, 329;
on Whitman, 431 n.;
_Roundel_, 376*;
_Sapphics_, 340*;
_Seaboard_, 51*;
_Song in Season_, 28*;
_Thalassius_, 329;
_Tristram of Lyonesse_, 212*;
_Winter in Northumberland_, 130 f.*, 147*.

Syllable-counting, in Surrey's verse, 216;
want of, in early English verse, 16, 112, 151.

Syllables, artificially varied in length when in metre, 401-404;
kinds of accented, 3.

SYMONDS, J. A., on blank verse, 214, 232, 233;
of 18th century, 239;
of _Gorboduc_, 217;
of Jonson, 225;
of Keats, 242;
of Marlowe, 220 f.;
of Shakspere, 222;
of Tennyson, 246;
of Webster, 229;
on heroic verse of the romantic poets, 210;
_Sonnets on the Thought of Death_, 287 f.*.

Tailed sonnet, 276.

Tail-rime (see _Rime couée_).

TAYLOR, B.: _Home Pastorals_, 349*;
_National Ode_, 320 f.*.

TAYLOR, W., on German and English hexameters, 345;
_Ossian's Hymn to the Sun_, 344 f.*.

TEN BRINK, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 151 f.;
on Chaucer's verse, 177, 178;
on early five-stress verse, 175;
on verse of court romances, 164 f.;
on verse of _King Horn_, 155.

TENNYSON: _Alcaics on Milton_, 337*;
blank verse of, 246;
_Boadicea_, 339;
_Break, break, break_, 21*;
_Charge of the Light Brigade_, 30*;
_Coming of Arthur_, 143;
_Daisy_, 77;
elegiac distich of, 346*;
_Enoch Arden_, 58*, 59*, 144*;
_Geraint and Enid_, 59*;
_Hendecasyllabics_, 337 f.*;
_In Memoriam_, 75 f.*;
_Locksley Hall_, 13*, 46 f.*;
_Lotos-Eaters_, 106*;
_Maud_, 32*, 42*, 43*, 52*, 317;
_Merlin and Vivien_, 58*;
_Montenegro_, 285 f.*;
_Northern Farmer_, 44*;
_[OE]none_, 59*;
on English hexameters, 353;
on quantity in English, 338;
_Oriana_, 80*;
_Palace of Art_, 74*;
_Passing of Arthur_, 244*;
_Princess_, 8*, 58*, 134*, 144 f.*, 245*, 246*;
_Queen Mary_, 245*;
_Sapphics_, 339*;
sonnets of, 286;
_Tears, Idle Tears_, 246*;
_To Maurice_, 77*;
_Two Voices_, 64*;
_Vision of Sin_, 41*, 54 f.*;
_Wellington Ode_, 315 f.*.

Tercets, 63-69.

Terminology, classical in English verse, 24 n., 406-409.

_Terza rima,_ 65-69.

THACKERAY, irregular verse in ballads of, 158 n.;
_Sorrows of Werther_, 47*;
_What Makes my Heart_, etc., 132*.

THOMSON, as imitator of Spenser's verse, 104;
_Castle of Indolence_, 103*, 143*;
_Seasons_, 237 f.*.

THOMSON, J.: _City of Dreadful Night_, 95*.

TILLBROOK, S., on Southey's hexameters, 347 n.

Time-element in English verse, 391-409.

Time-intervals, 11-23;
irregular, 13-16;
regular, 12 f.;
the basis of metrical feet, 408.

TODHUNTER, on Shelley's verse, 106.

TOLOMEI, C., 331.

TOMLINSON, on the sonnet, 267 f.

Tone-color, 135-147.

Tone-quality, 113-147.

TOTTEL: _Songs and Sonnets_, 10, 87*, 98*, 218, 266*, 271*, 290*, 372.

_Trial before Pilate_ (Mystery Play), 157*.

TRIGGS, on verse of _De Muliere Samaritana_, 253 f.

Triolet, 381-383.

Triple endings in Elizabethan drama, 226-228.

Triplet, used in heroic verse, 195, 208.

TRISSINO, G., 214, 330.

Trochaic verse, two-stress, 27 f.;
three-stress, 33 f.;
four-stress, 37 f.;
five-stress, 41;
six-stress, 43;
seven-stress, 45, 259;
eight-stress, 46 f.

Trochee, 24;
substituted for iambus, 57 f.

_Troy Book_, 156.

Truncation, 25, 33.

"Tumbling verse," 157 f., 159;
relation to decasyllabic, 179 f.

TURBERVILLE: _Heroical Epistles_, 219.

UDALL, N.: _Ralph Roister Doister_, 14*.

VAN DYKE, H., on Tennyson's _Wellington Ode_, 317.

Variety in verse, significant, 61.

_Vers baïfins_, 331.

_Vers de société_, 39, 365.

_Versi sciolti_, 214, 330 f.

Villanelle, 376-380.

VILLON, 358, 363, 365, 367, 374.

Virelai, 385.

VOITURE, 358, 371;
_Rondeau_, 371*.

Vowels, long and short in English, 396 f.

WACE, _Brut_, 160*.

WADDINGTON: _Manuel des Pechiez_, 163 n.*.

WALLER: _Battle of the Summer Islands_, 187*;
_Go, Lovely Rose_, 89*;
influence on heroic couplet, 187-190;
_Of the Danger of his Majesty_, etc., 186*.

WARD, on verse of Cowper, 240.

WARNER, W.: _Albion's England_, 261*.

WARTON brothers, revivers of sonnet, 277.

WARTON, T., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182;
_Sonnet on Dugdale's Monasticon_, 276 f.*.

WATSON (of Cambridge), distich of, 341*.

WATSON, T.: _Tears of Fancy_, 273.

WATSON, W.: _Hymn to the Sea_, 355*;
_Sonnet on History_, 297*;
_Sonnet to the Sultan_, 289*.

WATTS, T., on verse-form in poetry, 426 f.;
_Sonnet's Voice_, 288*.

_Wayle whyte, A,_ 86*.

WEBBE, W.: _Discourse of English Poetrie_ cited, 46, 334, 341, 344;
_Eclogue of Vergil_, 344*;
_Sapphics_, 333*.

WEBSTER: _Duchess of Malfi_, 228*.

WENDELL, B., on Shakspere's verse, 223 f.

WHITE, G., on _chant royal_, 368;
on French lyrical forms, 359 f.

WHITE, J. B.: _Sonnet to Night_, 281*.

WHITMAN, W., verse of, 431.

WOOD, H., on the heroic couplet, 189 f.

WOODBERRY, on the heroic couplet, 207.

WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality_ (ode), 312 f.*;
_I wandered lonely_, 92*;
_Norman Boy_, 264*;
on blank verse, 232;
on theory of metre, 417-420;
_Peter Bell_, 91*;
_Pet Lamb_, 257*;
_Scorn not the Sonnet_, 279*;
_Solitary Reaper_, 97 f.*;
_Sonnet, The_, 278 f.*;
sonnets of, 278, 280;
_The World is too much with us_, 279 f.*;
_Tintern Abbey_, 243*;
_White Doe of Rylstone_, 171 f*.

WYATT, accents in verse of, 10 f.;
_How to use the court_, 65*;
_Of his love that pricked his finger_, 98*;
_O goodly hand_, 87*;
_ottava rima_ introduced by, 98;
_Power of Love_, 96*;
_Rondeau_, 372*;
_Sonnet_, 271*;
sonnet introduced by, 272;
text of poems of, 10 f.;
_The joy so short_, 20*;
_Torment of the Unhappy Lover_, 101 f.*;
unaccented rime in, 122 n.

YOUNG: _Night Thoughts_, 238;
_Ocean_, 87 f.*;
stanza of odes of, 88.

End of Project Gutenberg's English Verse, by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.