English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and History

accents alexandrine alliteration Altenglische anapestic Anglo-Saxon assonance ballad blank verse bright BROWNING called Catalectic century cesura Chaucer dactylic death decasyllabic doth Dryden Elizabethan English poetry English verse Essay eyes feet feminine ending five-stress following specimen foot four-stress French Gosse half-line hand harmony hath heart heaven heroic couplet hexameters iambic imitation Italian Keats King language Latin light syllable long line lyrical measure melody metre metrical metrist Middle English Milton modern natural number of syllables o'er ottava rima pause poem poet poetic Pope Primer of English Professor Corson prose quatrain regular rhyme rhythm rime-scheme run-on satires says Schipper seems sense septenary sestet SHAKSPERE sing song sonnet soul sound Spenser Spenserian stanza spondee stanza stress strophe sweet SWINBURNE syllables TENNYSON thee thing thou thought trochaic trochee unrimed unto versification vowel Waller wind words WORDSWORTH Wyatt þat