VIII. CHIEF METRICAL FORMS: PART I

Date Heroic Couplet[243][244] Octosyllabic Couplet Ballad Meter Blank Verse

Chaucer (d. 1400)[243][244] Chaucer Numerous ballads

Sir Patrick Spens

1500 Chevy Chace

Surrey

Spenser[244] Spenser Marlowe

1600 Shakespeare

Wither[243] P. Fletcher Jonson

Cowley[243] Milton

Cooper’s Hill[243]

Milton

Dryden[243] Butler

Dryden

1700

Pope[243] Swift

Thomson

Percy

Johnson[243]

Chatterton

Goldsmith[243] Goldsmith Cowper

1800 Coleridge Coleridge Wordsworth

Keats[244] Scott Scott Keats

Byron[243] Byron Shelley

Tennyson

Arnold[244] Tennyson

W. Morris[244] W. Morris D. G. Rossetti Browning

Arnold

1900 Swinburne[244] Swinburne