A Study of Versification

Alphabetical symbols, for pairs of Blake, William, 196, 197.

rimes, 109.

Amiel, 6.

Amphibrach, 16.
Amphimacer, 16.
Anacreon, 40.

Anapestic dimeter, 148, 159; hepta-
meter, 18, 114; hexameter, 35; oc-
tameter, 35; tetrameter, 26, 200,
204, 205; trimeter, 23, 148.

Blank verse, 49, 225.

"Blank Verse," Symonds, quota-

tion from, 200, 267.

Boileau, 41, 49.

Bradley, Professor A. C., 3, 7.
Breathing, rate of, 36.
Bride of Abydos, 27, 35.
Bridge of Sighs, 45, 63.
Bright, John, 11, 267.

Anapestic meters, substitution in, Browning, Elizabeth B., 53, 57, 58,

Anapestic rhythm, 32; termination Browning, Robert, 23, 24, 33, 39, 40,
of, 50.

Annabel Lee, 100, 121.

Aristotle, 32.

198, 218, 265.

"Art of Poetry," 41, 49.

53, 56, 62, 65, 67, 70, 75, 76, 84, 86, 87,
105, 115, 185, 186, 202, 224, 242, 243,
247.

Arnold, Matthew, 160, 184, 194, 196, Bryant, William Cullen, 109, 203,

"Art of Verse," 248.

Assonance, 59, 61, 193.
Atalanta in Calydon, 74.

Balestier, Wolcott, 106.
Ballad, 20, 32; meter, 227.
Ballad of Beau Brocade, 104, 264.
Ballade, 160.

Ballade à double refrain, 167.
Ballade of Dreamland, 169.
Ballade of East and West, 264.
Ballade of Old Plays, 162.
Ballade of Prose and Rime, 167.
Ballade of Swimming, 164.
Ballade of the Armada, 259.
Banville, Theodore de, 157, 161, 163,
173, 248.

Barbara Frietchie, 103, 206.
Barham, Richard H., 64, 204, 205.

241.

Bunner, H. C., 69, 84, 148, 150, 152.
Burns, Robert, 119, 123, 206.

Butler, Samuel, 205.

Byron, Lord, 13, 17, 27, 35, 50, 64, 87,
107, 108, 109, 111, 119, 129, 201, 202,
206, 222, 256, 257.

Campbell, Thomas, 210.

Canning, George, 65, 153.
Canterbury Tales, 211.
Carman, Bliss, 86.

Carpenter, Professor G. R., 198.
Catullus, 91.

Cavalier Tunes, 23.

Celtic origin of assonance, 61.
Century of Roundels, 152.
"Certain Notes of Instruction con-
cerning the Making of Verse,"
Gascoigne, quotation from, 80,
244.

Chamber over the Gate, 95.

Chant-royal, 170.

Drayton, Michael, 38, 110.

Dreams, 126.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 112, 119, 160, 206, Dryden, John, 32, 73, 202, 208, 213,

Courtship of Miles Standish, The, English verse, 225.

Dimeter, 17.

"Discourse on Epic Poetry," Dry- Feminine rime, 50.

den, quotation from, 73.
"Discourses on Painting,"
nolds, quotation from, 4.
Distich, 178.

Field, Eugene, 68.

Rey- Fifine at the Fair, 39.

Divina Commedia, 141, 247.
Dobson, Austin, 17, 45, 46, 50, 75, 76,
80, 104, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152,
154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 161, 167, 168,
174, 248, 250, 259.

Don Juan, 64, 111.
Dorchain, Auguste, 248.
Double rime, 47, 50, 63, 75.
Drake, Joseph R., 13, 17.

"Fit of Rime against Rime, A,"
Jonson, quotation from, 176.
Fitzgerald, Edward, 107, 109.
Five-line stanza, 113.
Fletcher, John, 235.
Fly not yet, 120.
Foot, 33.

For Annie, 26, 35, 67, 99.
Ford, John, 235.

Foresters, The, 115.
Four Winds, 182.

French, terminal rimes in, 33; 225; | House of Fame, The, 206.

Alexandrine, 40, 225; dependence

upon rime, 177.

French verse, 248, 259.

Hovey, Richard, 36, 86.

How They Brought the Good News
from Ghent to Aix, 202.

Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, Hugo, Victor, 173.

231.

Future, The, 194.

Garden of Proserpine, 112.
Gascoigne, George, 80, 130, 244.
Gautier, Théophile, 173, 250.
Gay, John, 125.

Gilder, R. W., 98, 127, 134.

Goblet of Life, The, 116, 120.
God of Love, 170.

God Save the King, 40.
Goethe, 27.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 203, 204, 210, 221,
222.

Gorboduc, 227, 228.

Hunt, Leigh, 7, 102, 153, 210, 219, 220,
222.

Hymns, 32.

Iambic heptameter. 17, 22, 34, 38,
227; hexameter, 17, 38; pentame-
ter, 17, 18, 37, 39, 42, 129, 133, 200,
208, 209, 210, 211, 223, 224; tetra-
meter, 17, 159, 186, 200, 205, 206,
207; trimeter, 186.

Iambic meters, substitution in, 20.
Iambic rhythms, frequency in Eng-
lish verse, 31, 32; termination, 50.
Idyllic poems, 102.

Il Penseroso, 206.

Gosse, Edmund, 144, 163, 173, 195, 263. | Iliad, Pope's translation, 220.

Hebrew lyrics, lack of rime in, 177. Ivory Gate, The, 257.

Hebrew rhapsodists, 196.

Henley, William E., 147, 148,159, 179.

Hero and Leander, 212.
Heroic couplet, 32, 200.
Herrick, Robert, 111, 126.
Heywood, Thomas, 235.

Hiawatha, Song of, 36, 37, 186, 264.
His Majesty's Escape, 213.
Hodgson, Shadworth H., 225.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 36, 37, 38,
39, 40, 57, 70, 119, 122, 187, 188, 207,
210.

Homer, 40.

Homeric hexameter, 191.

Hood, Tom, 1, 13, 17, 33, 45, 53, 63, 67,

110, 119, 122, 246.

Hooker, Brian, 242.

Horace, 150, 260.

Ivry, 94, 264.

Jackdaw of Rheims, The, 204.
Jocosa Lyra, 76.

Johnson, Samuel, 222, 237, 238.
Jonson, Ben, 55, 176, 209, 213, 235.

Kalevala, the Finnish, 186.
Keats, John, 53, 119, 131, 139, 210, 222,
223, 241, 242, 258.

King Henry of Navarre, 94.
King James, 31, 47, 48, 196.
Kipling, Rudyard, 18, 40, 53, 66, 94,
106, 110, 195, 196.

La Farge, John, 2.

Lady Clara Vere de Vere, 94.

Lady of Shalott, The, 95, 119.

Lady of the Lake, The, 206.
Lamb, Charles, 181, 183.

Landor, W. S., 98, 126, 128, 178.
Lang, Andrew, 88, 135, 152, 159
162, 170.

Lanier, Sidney, 74, 87, 267.
Last Leaf, The, 122.

Last Oracle, 120.

Latin dramatists, 227.

Latin hexameter, 40.

McFingal, 205.

Men and Women, 185.
Merchantmen, The, 110.
161, Meredith, George, 177.
Meter, 31, 33.

Miller, Joaquin, 68.

Milton, John, 16, 32, 42, 43, 44, 78, 85,

129, 133, 139, 190, 191, 206, 230, 236,
237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 247, 249, 254,
255, 259.

Latin lyrics, absence of rime in, Miss Blanche Says, 118.
177.

Mitchell, Weir, 186.

Latin rhythm the result of quantity, Monk's Tale, 112.

189.

Lemaitre, Jules, 170.

Lewis Carroll, 65.

Life and Death of Jason, 224.
Limerick, 144.

Lincoln, Abraham, 264.
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 67, 247.
Long syllable, 18, 28, 189.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 13,
17, 18, 36, 39, 40, 77, 78, 95, 104, 113,
116, 120, 121, 122, 139, 140, 179, 180,
183, 186, 187, 188, 190.
Lope de Vega, 154.
Lost Love, 68.

Lounsbury, Professor T. R., 172.
Love among the Ruins, 75, 76.
Love and Age, 46.

Love's Labor's Lost, 212.
Love's Nocturn, 67, 123.

Lowell, James Russell, 10, 50, 62, 64,
119, 127, 137, 140, 173, 203, 204, 206,
209, 210, 216, 237, 246, 248.
Lüders, Charles Henry, 182.
Lyric poetry, 102.

Macaulay, T. B., 34, 38, 46, 94.

Mahoney, Francis, 120.

Maidenhood, 104.

Malayan pantoum, 173.

Marching Along, 23.

229, 230, 231, 233.

Monogamous rimes, 71.
Monosyllables, 78.

Monotony, avoided by substitutions
and suppressions, 32.
Moore, Thomas, 117, 120.
Morris, William, 105, 210, 224.
"Musical Basis of Verse," 267.

Narrative poems, 102.
Nash, Thomas, 192.
Nature, Longfellow, 138.
"Nature and Elements of Poetry,
The," Stedman, quotation from, 8.
Newman, Cardinal, 185.
Nicholas Nickleby, 11.
Nine-line stanza, 119.
Norton, Caroline E. S., 227.
Nursery-rimes, 20, 39, 60.

O Captain! My Captain, 197, 255.
Octave, 131.

Ode to Duty, 253.

Odyssey, The, 135.

Old Clock on the Stairs, 95.
Omissions, 21.

Omond, T. S., 31, 266, 267.

On a Distant Prospect of Eton Col-
lege, 117.

On a Fan, 45.

On Himself, 126.

Marlowe, Christopher, 209, 212, 228, "On Translating Homer," Arnold,

Marmion, 36, 37, 206.

Marseillaise, The, 40.

Marston, John, 235.

Masculine rime, 50.

Massinger, Philip, 235.

Match, A, 149.

Maud Muller, 103, 206, 264.

May Queen, 95.

Mayor, Professor, 5.
McAndrews' Hymn, 66.

"Philosophy of Composition," Poe, Rimeless verse, 33.

quotation from, 95.

66 Physiology of Versification,"
Holmes, quotation from, 36, 267.
Plain Language from Truthful
James, 114.

"Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of
Verse," Gosse, quotation from,
144, 173.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 2, 26, 35, 50, 53, 58,
66, 67, 82, 83, 84, 87, 95, 96, 99, 119,
121.

Poetic License, 244, 251.
Polyolbion, 38.
Polysyllable, 80.

Pope, Alexander, 2, 32, 43, 71, 73, 78,
88, 125, 208, 209, 210, 213, 216, 217,
218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 226.
Poplar Field, The, 202.
Power of Short Words, 79.
Praed, W. M., 46, 153.
Prelude, 122.

Princess, 85, 181.

Prior, Matthew, 40, 256.

Prisoner of Chillon, The, 206.
Prodigals, The, 161.
Progress of Art, 222.

Prologue, 60.

Psalm of Life, 18.

Psalm of the Waters, 186.

Quantity, 14, 189.

Quatrain, 67, 106, 111, 126, 144.

Rape of the Lock, The, 220.
"Rationale of Verse," Poe, 26, 267.
Raven, 95, 97.

Ready for the Ride, 150.

Recessional, 94.

Romeo and Juliet, 233.
Rondeau, 150, 153.
Rondel, 150.

Rose-Leaves, 147, 148.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 58, 67, 123,
137, 142.
Roundel, 152.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, 107.
"Rules for writing verse," King
James, 31.

"Rules of Rhyme, The," Hood, quo-
tation from, 1, 246.

Sackville, George, 227
Saga of King Olaf, The, 180.

| Saintsbury, Professor G. E, 233, 240,
266.
Sapphics, 191.
Scansion, 17.

Schiller, 190.

Scorn not the Sonnet, 136.

Scott, Sir Walter, 25, 34, 36, 38, 39,
47, 58, 60, 66, 206, 208, 220, 264.
Seaweed, 77, 122.

Seneca, 227.

Serenade, 67.

Serenade at the Villa, A, 115.
Sestet, 131.

Sestina, 195.

Sestina of the Tramp Royal, 196.
Seven-line stanza, 123
Shakspere, William, 18, 19, 32, 41, 60,
79, 80, 84, 85, 88, 90, 129, 130, 139, 209,
212, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 240,
241.

Shaksperian sonnet, 131.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 34, 38, 107,
109, 114, 210, 222, 224.

Recurrence of the same vowel- Shepherd's Calendar, 211.

sound, 87.

Refrain, 94, 167.

Repetition of sound, 55.

Rests, 23.

Sherman, 98.

Shirley, James, 235.

Short syllables, 18, 28, 189.
Sibilants, 89.

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