A History of English Versification
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. CONTENTS4. CHAPTER I GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF METRE AND THE STRUCTURE OF VERSE5. CHAPTER II THE ALLITERATIVE VERSE IN OLD ENGLISH6. CHAPTER II THE ALLITERATIVE VERSE IN OLD ENGLISH (continued 2)7. CHAPTER III THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE FREER FORM OF THE ALLITERATIVE LINE IN LATE OLD ENGLISH AND EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH8. CHAPTER IV THE ALLITERATIVE LINE IN ITS CONSERVATIVE FORM DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES9. DIVISION I. The Foreign Metres in General CHAPTER V. INTRODUCTION10. CHAPTER VI VERSE-RHYTHM11. CHAPTER VII THE METRICAL TREATMENT OF SYLLABLES12. CHAPTER VIII WORD-ACCENT13. DIVISION II Verse-forms Common to the Middle and Modern English Periods CHAPTER IX LINES OF EIGHT FEET, FOUR FEET, TWO FEET, AND ONE FOOT14. CHAPTER X THE SEPTENARY, THE ALEXANDRINE, AND THE THREE-FOOT LINE15. CHAPTER XI THE RHYMED FIVE-FOOT VERSE16. CHAPTER XII BLANK VERSE17. CHAPTER XIII TROCHAIC METRES18. CHAPTER XIV IAMBIC-ANAPAESTIC AND TROCHAIC-DACTYLIC METRES19. CHAPTER XV NON-STROPHIC, ANISOMETRICAL COMBINATIONS OF RHYMED VERSE20. CHAPTER XVI IMITATIONS OF CLASSICAL FORMS OF VERSE AND STANZA21. CHAPTER I. DEFINITIONS STANZA, RHYME, VARIETIES OF RHYME22. CHAPTER II THE RHYME AS A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT OF THE STANZA23. CHAPTER III BIPARTITE EQUAL-MEMBERED STANZAS24. CHAPTER IV ONE-RHYMED INDIVISIBLE AND BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED STANZAS25. CHAPTER V TRIPARTITE STANZAS26. CHAPTER VI STANZAS OF THREE AND MORE PARTS CONSISTING OF UNEQUAL PARTS ONLY27. CHAPTER VII THE SPENSERIAN STANZA AND FORMS DERIVED FROM IT28. CHAPTER VIII THE EPITHALAMIUM STANZA AND OTHER ODIC STANZAS29. CHAPTER IX THE SONNET30. CHAPTER X OTHER ITALIAN AND FRENCH POETICAL FORMS OF A FIXED CHARACTER