English Verse: Specimens Illustrating Its Principles and History, Tom 10

accent alexandrine alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon antistrophe ballade beauty blank verse called Catalectic century cesura Chaucer classical consonants dactylic death decasyllabic doth Dryden element Elizabethan English poetry English verse Essay eyes feet feminine ending five-stress foot four-stress French Gosse half-line hand harmony hath heart heaven heroic couplet hexameters iambic imitation influence irregular Italian Keats King language Latin light syllable lyrical measure melody metre metrical metrist Milton modern natural number of syllables o'er pause Pindaric poem poet poetic Pope Professor prose prosody quoted reader regular rhyme rhythm rhythmical rime rondeau run-on satires says Schipper seems sense septenary sestet SHAKSPERE sing song sonnet soul sound Spenser spondee stanza stress strophe sweet SWINBURNE syllables TENNYSON thee thing thou thought time-intervals trochaic trochee unrimed versification Villanelle voice vowel W. E. HENLEY Waller wind words þat