Chapter III: Part TWO

I. FOUR-STRESS VERSE 151
A.--Non-syllable-counting 151
B.--Syllable-counting (Octosyllabic Couplet) 160
II. FIVE-STRESS VERSE 174
A.---The Decasyllabic Couplet 174
B.--Blank Verse 213
III. SIX-STRESS AND SEVEN-STRESS VERSE 252
A.--The Alexandrine (Iambic Hexameter) 252
B.--The Septenary 259
C.--The "Poulter's Measure" 265
IV. THE SONNET 267
A.--The Regular (Italian) Sonnet 270
B.--The English (Shaksperian) Sonnet 290
V. THE ODE 298
A.--Regular Pindaric 299
B.--Irregular (Cowleyan) 307
C.--Choral 323
VI. IMITATIONS OF CLASSICAL METRES 330
A.--Lyrical Measures 331
B.--Dactylic Hexameter 340
VII. IMITATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL FRENCH LYRICAL FORMS 358
A.--The Ballade 360
B.--The Rondeau and Rondel 368
i. "Rondel" type 369
ii. "Rondeau" type 371
C.--The Villanelle 376
D.--The Triolet 381
E.--The Sestina 383

PART THREE

THE TIME-ELEMENT IN ENGLISH VERSE 391

PART FOUR

THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF THE METRICAL ELEMENT IN
POETRY 413
Aristotle 413
Sir Philip Sidney 416
Samuel Johnson 417
Wordsworth 417
Coleridge 420
Shelley 422
William Hazlitt 423
Leigh Hunt 425
Theodore Watts 426
Edmund Gurney 427
W. J. Courthope 429
E. C. Stedman 432
F. B. Gummere 433

APPENDIX

TABLE ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE HEROIC
COUPLET 437