Abraham and Isaac (Mystery Play), 112*.
Accents, arbitrary variation of, 400;
conflict of, 7-11;
deficiency in, 55,56;
degrees of, 3-5;
excess of 55, 57;
hovering, 9-11;
inversion of, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.;
kinds of, 3, 6;
relation of different kinds, 7;
relation to quantity, 405 f.;
secondary, 3, 5, 156, 409;
time-intervals of, 11, 393-396;
wrenched, 8-11.
Addison: Campaign, 199*;
Cato, 236*;
on verse of Butler, 167 f.
Ælfric, verse of, 116 f.
Akenside: Pleasures of the Imagination, 238;
Virtuoso, 104.
Alamanni, influence on Wyatt, 65.
Alberti, classical metres of, 330.
Alcaic stanza, 77.
Alexandrine, 252-259;
developed by Browning, 258;
French, 18;
in five-stress verse, 195, 208, 258;
in sonnet, 272 f.;
in Spenserian stanza, 103;
unrimed, 255;
used at end of stanzas other than Spenserian, 107.
Alliteration, 113, 116-121;
in mediæval Latin, 117;
sporadic, 135.
"Alliterative long line," 119, 156.
Alscher, on Wyatt, 11.
Anacrusis, 25.
Anapest, 24;
substituted for iambus, 58 f.
Anapestic verse, two-stress, 28 f.;
three-stress, 34-36;
four-stress, 39 f.;
five-stress, 42;
six-stress, 43;
seven-stress, 45;
eight-stress, 48;
in vers de société, 39.
Anderson, M. B.: Inferno, 68 f.*.
Anderson, R., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182.
Anglo-Saxon verse, alliteration in, 116 f.;
relation of accent and quantity in, 405 f.;
rime in, 124, 125 f.;
stanzas in, 62 n.;
two theories of, 151-154;
types of, 152 f.
Archer, W., on Watson's sonnets, 290.
Areopagus, 332 f.
Aristophanes, Swinburne on verse of, 45 f.
Aristotle, his theory of metre, 413-416.
Arnold, M.: East London, 286*;
Empedocles on Ætna, 325-327*;
Forsaken Merman, 5*, 22 f.*, 53 f.*;
Future, 115*;
on Chapman's septenary, 262;
on English hexameters, 351-353;
on Longfellow's hexameters, 348;
Sohrab and Rustum, 58*, 249 f.*.
Arnaut, the troubadour, sestina of, 383.
"Ascending rhythm," 24.
Ascham: Schoolmaster, 330, 341.
Asclepiadean verse, 331.
Assonance, 113-115;
in Celtic verse, 115;
in verse of Romance languages, 113 f.
Atterbury, on Dryden's influence, 197;
on Waller, 188 f.
Aurora lucis rutilat, 160*.
Bacon, F., on significant sounds, 136.
Baïf, de, A., classical metre of, 331.
Ballade, 360-367.
Ballads, stanza of, 70, 264;
verse of, 10, 157.
Banville, de, T., 358, 359.
Barbour: Bruce, 162 f*.
Barclay: Ship of Fooles, 94.
Barnes: Parthenophil, 273.
Baston, 83.
Beaumont, F.: Knight of the Burning Pestle, 263*.
Beaumont, J., on heroic couplet, 190 f.;
verse of, 191 n.
Beers, on heroic stanza, 73.
Bentley, on Milton's verse, 58.
Beowulf, 13*.
Bernard (St.): De Nativitate Domini, 80*.
Bernart, de Ventadorn, 110.
Best, J. R.: Bon Rondeau, 373*.
Bestiary, 118*.
Bewick and Grahame (ballad), 157*.
BLAIR: Grave, 236 f.*.
Blank verse, 213-251;
abandoned in Restoration drama, 196-199;
early use of term, 215;
in lyrical poems, 246;
its decadence, 230, 234;
revival in 18th century, 238;
unpopular in 18th century, 204 f.
Blow, northern wind, 78*.
Bob-wheel, 110 n.
Böddeker: Altenglische Dichtungen, cited, 14, 69, 78, 84, 86, 110, 111, 175.
Bolton, T. L., on nature of rhythm, 393 n.
Bowles, W. L.: Sonnet, 277*;
sonnets of, 278.
Bright, J. W., on "pitch-accent," 5 f.;
theory of metrical accent, 401 n.
Brome, R., blank verse of, 230.
Bronson, on Greek and English ode, 300;
on odes of Collins, 305.
Browning, E. B.: Cowper's Grave, 264*;
Rhyme of the Duchess May, 80*;
Sonnets from the Portuguese, 283*;
sonnets of, 284.
BROWNING, R.: Abt Vogler, 50*;
Agamemnon, 327 f.*;
blank verse of, 247-249;
Caliban upon Setebos, 31 f.*, 57*, 145 f.*;
Cavalier Tunes, 40*;
Epistle of Karshish, 248*;
Fifine at the Fair, 257 f.*;
Flight of the Duchess, 129*;
Fra Lippo Lippi, 249*;
Guardian Angel, 95*;
Heretic's Tragedy, 145*;
In a Balcony, 248*;
Love among the Ruins, 90*;
Misconceptions, 37*;
One Word More, 41*;
Pacchiarotto, 128 f.*;
Paracelsus, 8*, 59*, 145*;
Prospice, 29*, 50*;
Ring and the Book, 57*, 59*, 247*;
Saul, 42*;
sonnets of, 286, 287;
Sordello, 211*;
Statue and the Bust, 67*;
Why I am a Liberal, 287*.
Bücher, K.: Labor and Rhythm, 436 n.
BURNS: Auld Lang Syne, 21*;
Birks of Aberfeldy, 78*;
Bonnie Doon, 70*;
Chevalier's Lament, 39*;
Cotter's Saturday Night, 104*;
Duncan Gray, 79*;
Tam O'Shanter, 171*;
To a Louse, 87*.
Butcher, S. H., on Aristotle's view of metre, 413-416.
Butler: Hudibras, 137*, 167*.
Byron: Childe Harold, 105*;
Destruction of Sennacherib, 39*;
Don Juan, 100*, 128*;
double rimes of, 128, 129;
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 206*;
Farewell, if ever, 97*;
Francesca of Rimini, 68*;
Prisoner of Chillon, 171*;
She Walks in Beauty, 92*;
Song of Saul, 40*;
Stanzas for Music, 44*;
use of ottava rima, 101.
Campion, T.: Anacreontics, 27*;
Iambic Dimeter, 334 f.*;
Observations in the Art of English Poesie, 335 f.;
Trochaic Dimeter, 335*.
Canning: Rovers, 131*.
Canning (and Frere): Sapphics, 337*.
Canzone, influence of, on the sonnet, 267.
Carew: In Praise of his Mistress, 89*.
Carey, P.: Triolet, 382 f.*.
Catalexis, 22, 25;
in the ode, 319.
Catullus, metres of, imitated, 339.
Caudated sonnet, 276.
Celtic verse, alliteration in, 117;
assonance in, 115;
rime in, 124.
Cesura, 17-19;
in alexandrine, 253, 258;
kinds of, 19.
Chant Royal, 367 f.
Chapman: All Fools, 215*;
Hymn to Cynthia, 343*;
Iliad, 262*.
Chatterton: Ælla, 79*, 107 f.*;
his variant of Spenserian stanza, 108.
Chaucer: Balade de bon conseyl, 360f.*;
Balade on Gentilesse, 362;
Balade to Rosemound, 362;
Complaint to his Empty Purse, 362;
Compleynt of Venus, 362;
Compleynte unto Pite, 93*, 177, 178;
decasyllabic verse of, 177-179;
Fortune, 362;
free cesura in verse of, 17;
French lyrical forms used by, 362;
House of Fame, 165 f.*;
influence on form of Spenserian stanza, 103;
Knights Tale, 138 f.*;
Lak of Stedfastnesse, 362;
Legend of Good Women, 176* (ballade in, 362);
Monk's Tale, 97*;
octosyllabic couplet of, 166;
omission of opening syllable in verse of, 20;
on alliteration, 120;
Parlement of Foules, 369*;
perfect rime in, 121 n.;
Prologue, 20*, 176*;
Proverb, 71*;
"rime royal" introduced by, 94;
Sir Thopas, 84*.
Chevy Chase (ballad), 70*.
Choral odes, 323-328.
Choriambus, 408.
Cid, Poema del, 114*.
Classical metres, imitations of, 330-357.
Clough, A. H.: Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, 350*;
hexameter of, 351;
his analysis of a line of blank verse, 403.
Coleridge: Ancient Mariner, 133*, 263*;
Christabel, 15*, 401*;
Fancy in Nubibus, 296*;
hexameters of, 346;
his theory of metre, 420-422;
Hymn before Sunrise, 241*;
Hymn to the Earth, 345 f.*;
Kubla Khan, 138*, 147*;
Ode on the Departing Year, 311*;
on sonnet of White, 281;
on sonnets of Bowles, 278;
sonnets of, 296;
To a Friend, 75*.
Collins: Ode to Evening, 246;
Ode to Liberty, 170*, 303 f.*;
on verse of Skelton, 32;
Passions, 310*.
"Common metre," 261 f.
Confessio Goliae, 259*.
Congreve: Discourse on Pindaric Ode, 302 f.;
Pindaric Ode, 301 f.*.
Consonants, as lengthening English syllables, 396-399.
Constable: Diana, 273.
Corson, on blank verse of Browning, 247 f.;
on double rime, 129 f.;
on In Memoriam stanza, 76 f.;
on Mrs. Browning's sonnets, 284;
on ottava rima, 98, 99;
on rime, 122;
on Spenserian stanza of Keats, 105;
on variety in verse movement, 61;
on verse of Cowper, 240;
on Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, 313 f.
Cotton, C.: Rondeau, 372 f.*;
Virelai of, 385.
Couplet (see under Decasyllabic and Octosyllabic).
Courthope, on Aristotle's view of metre, 415;
on the sonnet, 268, 272;
on verse-form in poetry, 429-432;
on verse of Pope, 201;
on verse of Surrey, 216.
Cowley, Congreve on the odes of, 303;
introduction of irregular ode by, 308;
Resurrection, 307 f.*;
Solitude, 88*.
Cowleyan ode, 298, 307-323.
Cowper: Alexander Selkirk, 34*;
anapests of, 35;
blank verse of, 240 f.;
John Gilpin, 264;
My Mary, 79*;
on Milton's verse, 58 f.;
Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin, 278*;
Table Talk, 205*;
Task, 239 f.*.
Crabbe: Borough, 206f.*.
Crashaw: Wishes for the Supposed Mistress, 64*.
Creation and Fall (Mystery Play), 95*.
Cretic, 31.
"Crown of Sonnets," 275.
Cynewulf: Crist, 116*;
Elene, rime in, 126 n.;
Riddle of (strophic), 63 n.
Dactyl, 24.
Dactylic verse, two-stress, 30;
three-stress, 37;
four-stress, 40;
five-stress, 42;
six-stress, 44;
seven-stress, 46;
eight-stress, 48.
Daniel: Care-charmer Sleep, 291 f.*;
Civil War, 99*;
Defence of Rime, 33 n.;
Delia, 273, 292.
Dante, terza rima of, 65, 67-69.
Davenant: Gondibert, 71*, 72.
Davies, Sir J.: Nosce Teipsum, 73.
Decasyllabic couplet, 174-213;
Chaucer's, 177;
in Elizabethan age, 190;
in the drama, 196-199;
of the romantic poets, 209f., 212;
Saintsbury on qualities of, 194f.
De Muliere Samaritana, 253*.
Denham: Against Love, 63*;
Cooper's Hill, 191f.*.
Deo Gracias, 96*.
Deor's Lament, 62n.
De Quincey, on Milton's verse, 233n.
"Descending rhythm," 25.
Deschamps, 358.
Dobson, A., ballades of, 367;
Dance of Death, 368;
on French lyrical forms, 358f.;
on ottava rima, 101;
on Pope, 203;
Rose Leaves, 381f.*;
Too Hard it is to Sing, 269f.*;
When I Saw you Last, Rose, 378*;
With Pipe and Flute, 374*.
Donne, critics on the verse of, 183;
Holy Sonnets, 274f.*;