IX. CHIEF METRICAL FORMS: PART II
Reading edition
Date Spenserian Stanza Ottava Rima Rhyme Royal Sonnet
Chaucer (d. 1400)
James I of Scotland
1500 Henryson
Sackville Wyat[246]
Spenser Surrey[245]
1600 Spenser[245]
Britannia’s Pastorals Shakespeare[245]
Drayton[246]
Milton[246]
1700
Thomson
Shenstone
1800 Wordsworth[246]
Keats Byron Byron[246]
Shelley Keats Keats[246]
Byron Shelley[246]
Tennyson Tennyson[246]
W. Morris
1900 D. G. Rossetti[246]