English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and History

accent alexandrine alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon antistrophe ballade beauty blank verse called century cesura Chaucer classical consonants death decasyllabic doth Dryden Elizabethan end-stopped English Metre English poetry English verse Essay eyes feet five-stress foot four-stress French Gosse half-line hand harmony hath heart heaven heroic couplet hexameters iambic imitation influence irregular Italian Keats King language Latin light syllables long line lyrical measure melody metre metrical metrist Middle English Milton modern natural o'er ottava rima pause Pindaric poem poet poetic Pope Primer of English Professor Corson prose prosody quoted reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmical rime rime-scheme rondeau satires says Schipper seems sense septenary sestet SHAKSPERE sing song sonnet soul sound Spenser spondees stanza stress strophe sweet SWINBURNE syllables TENNYSON thee thing thou thought trochaic trochee unrimed unto versification Villanelle vowel Waller wind words Wordsworth þat