Handlying Synne, 163*;
simplifying of French metrical forms by, 82 f.
Marlowe, blank verse of, 221;
couplets of, 210;
Faustus, 57*, 219 f.*;
Hero and Leander, 181*, 190;
Jew of Malta, 139*;
Tamburlaine, 219*.
Marriage of Wit and Science, 255 f.*.
Mason, W., sonnets of, 277.
Massinger, blank verse of, 230;
New Way to Pay Old Debts, 229*.
Masson, on Milton's tailed sonnet, 276.
Mayor, J. B.: Chapters on English Metre cited, 409;
on Browning's blank verse, 249;
on Ellis's view of accent, 4 n.;
on substitutions of feet, 60.
Meredith, G.: Phaëthon, 339.
Metre, its place and function in poetry, 413-436.
Metrical romances, tail-rime in, 84.
Meyer, C. F., on rime, 123, 124.
Middleton, blank verse of, 228;
Changeling, 227*.
Mill, J. S., on rhythm in poetry, 433.
Milton: At a Solemn Music, 329;
blank verse of, 232 f.;
Il Penseroso, 166 f.*;
L'Allegro, 38*;
Lycidas, 99*, 142*;
Nativity Ode, 33*, 107*;
On his Blindness, 275*;
On Time, 329;
Paradise Lost, 4*, 7*, 15*, 57*, 58*, 59*, 140*, 141*, 230 f.*;
Passion, 94;
Psalm II., 66*;
Psalm VI., 74*;
Samson Agonistes, 231 f.*, 323-325*;
Sonnet on Piedmont Massacre, 141*;
sonnets of, 276.
Minot, L.: Battle of Halidon Hill, 96*.
Misfortunes of Arthur, 219.
Mitchell, S. Weir: Psalm of the Waters, 36*.
Molza, Francesco, 216.
"Monk's Tale stanza," 97.
Monologue d'outre Tombe, 386*.
Moody, W. V.: Menagerie, 91*;
Ode in Time of Hesitation, 321-323*.
Moore, T.: Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, 40*;
Down in yon Summervale, 121 n.*;
Go Where Glory Waits Thee, 33 f.*.
Morris, R., on early octosyllabic verse, 162.
Morris, W.: Earthly Paradise, 93 f.*, 173*;
Fair Spring Morning, 329;
Folk-Mote by the River, 159*;
Jason, 213*.
Moulton, R. G., on Browning's Caliban, 32.
Mousset, classical metres of, 331.
Music, its relation to verse, 391-396, 407 n., 413 f., 434-436.
Must I be Carried to the Skies, 262*.
Mystery plays, verse of, 94 f., 112, 265.
Nash, T., on English hexameters, 342;
Preface to Menaphon, 215.
Ne mai no lewed, etc., 109 f.*.
Newcomer, A. G., on wrenched accent, 10.
Newman, metre of his Iliad translation, 262.
Norden, on rime, 125.
Norse verse, influence on Anglo-Saxon, 126;
stanza in, 63.
Nutbrowne Maide (ballad), 132*.
Occleve, rime royal of, 94.
Octosyllabic couplet, 160-173.
Ode (The), 298-329.
Oldham, J.: Satires upon the Jesuits, 192*.
Onomatopœia, 135 f.
Ormulum, 260*.
O'shaughnessy, A.: Fountain of Tears, 36*.
Otfried, verse of, 123, 124.
Ottava rima, 98-101;
possible source of sonnet, 267.
Otway: Venice Preserved, 235*.
Owl and the Nightingale, 162*.
Pantoum, 385-388.
Paris, G., on Machault, 178.
Parnell: Night-Piece on Death, 168*.
Passerat, J.: Villanelle, 377*.
Passion of our Lord, 254.
Pater Noster, 161*.
Patience, 155*.
Patmore: Amelia, 319 n.*;
Ode, 318*;
on the ode, 319;
Unknown Eros, 319.
Pauses, 16-23;
varied to preserve metrical time, 404 f.
Payne, J., virelai of, 385.
Peacock, T. L.: Misfortunes of Elphin, 33*.
Pearl, The, 109*.
Peck, S. M.: Under the Rose, 382*.
Peele: Arraignment of Paris, 218*.
Petrarca: Sonnet, 271*.
Phalæcian verse, 331, 338.
Philips, J.: Cider, 238.
Phillips, S.: Marpessa, 251;
Paolo and Francesca, 250 f.*.
Phœnix, 153*.
Pindaric ode, 298, 299-307.
Pitch-accent, so-called, 5 f.
Pitt, W., 131 n.
Poe: Lenore, 134*;
on English hexameter, 349;
Rationale of Verse, 392;
Raven, 47*.
Poema Morale, 127*, 260.
Pope, A.: Essay on Criticism, 12*, 57*, 142*, 199 f.*;
Iliad, 200 f.*;
on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
on verse of Dryden, 194;
rules of verse, 201 f.;
Solitude, 27*.
Poulter's Measure, 255, 265 f.
Pre-Raphaelites, 10.
Preservation of King Henry VII., 343.
Prior: Better Answer, 39*.
Provençal, lyrical forms of, 358, 383.
Puttenham, G.: Arte of English Poesie cited, 8 n., 18, 94 n., 334 n.
Pyrrhic, 49, 55, 56.
Quantity in English, 391-406;
in English verse, 330, 332 f., 338, 354 f., 356, 357.
Quatrains, 69-77.
Quinque Gaudia, 85*.
Raleigh, W.: Pilgrim to Pilgrim, 35*.
Ranchin: Triolet, 381*.
Read, T. B.: Drifting, 88*.
Refrain stanzas, 78-90.
Regulae de Rhythmis, 81*.
Rhythm, arts of, 413 f.;
change of, 53-55, 61.
Rhythmus, meaning of, 124.
Rich, B.: Don Simonides, 219.
Rieger, on rime in Anglo-Saxon, 126 n.
Rime, 113, 121-135;
as organizer of stanza, 63;
broken, 131 f.;
defended by Daniel, 336 n.;
feminine, 121, 128 f.;
functions of, 122;
imperfect, 122 n.;
in Butler's Hudibras, 167 f.;
in drama, 196-199;
internal, 132-135
(in ballads, 70;
in Middle English alexandrines, 255;
in septenary, 259-261);
objections to, 122 f.;
origin of, 123-125;
suspected by classicists, 214, 232, 330;
triple, 121, 128-131.
Rime couée, 80-86;
in French, 81;
in Latin, 80 f.
Rime royal, 93 f.;
in Chaucer's Balade, 361.
Riming Poem (Anglo-Saxon), 125 f.*.
Robert of Gloucester: Chronicle, 265.
Robertson, J. M., his theories of English verse, 24 n., 392-394, 400, 403.
Robin Hood (ballad), 70*, 263*.
Roland, Chanson de, 113 f.*.
Romance languages, assonance in, 113.
Romance metres, regular time-intervals in, 12, 14 n.
Rondeau, 368, 371-376.
Rondel, 368-371.
Rossetti: Ballad of Dead Ladies, 362 f.*;
Blessed Damozel, 7*;
House of Life, 284*, 285*;
Love's Nocturn, 146*;
My Sister's Sleep, 75*;
on Drayton's sonnet, 293;
Penumbra, 135*;
Rose Mary, 91*;
Sister Helen, 80*;
sonnets of, 285;
Sunset Wings, 89*;
To Death (rondeau), 374*;
Willowwood, 9*.
Roundel, in Chaucer, 369;
Swinburne's form of, 376.
Rowlands, S., verse of, 190.
"Run-on" lines, 19 (see also Enjambement).
Russell, T., sonnets of, 277.
Sackville: Mirror for Magistrates, 94.
Sackville (and Norton): Gorboduc, 217*.
Saintsbury, on alexandrine, 258 f.;
on Blair, 237;
on Dryden's couplet, 194 f.;
on Dryden's dactyls, 40;
on heroic stanza, 73;
on Shenstone, 35 f.;
on Thomson, 238.
Sandys, G., heroic couplets of, 189 f., 191;
influence on Pope's verse, 201;
Metamorphoses, 191*;
Paraphrase of Luke, 63*.
Satire, heroic couplet in, 181, 182, 183, 206.
Satire on People of Kildare, 91*.
Scandinavian verse, influence in England, 126.
Schelling, F. E., on Campion's classical metres, 335 f.;
on influence of Jonson's verse, 186;
on Raleigh's anapests, 35.
Schiller, elegiac distich of, 346;
on rhythm in the drama, 433.
Schipper, on accent, 3;
on Anglo-Saxon alliteration, 117;
on early imitation of classical verse, 330 f.;
on Layamon, 119;
on the octosyllabic couplet, 161;
on Poulter's Measure, 265;
on rime, 123-125;
on rime in Cynewulf, 126 n.;
on rime royal, 94;
on Riming Poem, 126;
on Romance stanza-forms, 110 f.;
on the sonnet, 270;
on the stanza, 62;
on tumbling verse, 158 n.;
on types of alexandrine, 255;
on "unaccented rime," 121 n.
Schlegel., A. W., on tone-color, 137.
Schröer, on early blank verse, 218.
Scollard, C.: Villanelle, 380*.
Scott, W.: Hunting Song, 13*;
Lady of the Lake, 29*, 172*.
Scottish Field (ballad), 120 f.*.
Scottish verse, alliteration in, 120.
Sdruciolla, 215.
Seaman, O.: Battle of the Bays, 329 n.*.
Septenary, 259-264;
in drama, 218;
internal rime in, 132;
mingled with alexandrine, 252, 253 f., 261, 265;
unrimed, 260, 262.
Serafino: Strambotti, 272.
Sestina, 383-385.
Shakspere: As You Like It, 57*;
blank verse of, 223 f.;
Henry V., 140*;
heroic verse of, 184;
It was a lover, etc., 9*;
Julius Cæsar, 58*;
King John, 20*;
Love's Labor's Lost, 38*, 183 f.*;
Macbeth, 20*;
Measure for Measure, 20*, 222*;
Merchant of Venice, 57*;
Midsummer Night's Dream, 26*, 31*, 139*;
Much Ado, 215;
Phœnix and the Turtle, 63*, 74*;
Rape of Lucrece, 93*;
Richard II., 20*;
Romeo and Juliet, 7*, 57*;
Sonnets, 293*, 294*;
sonnets of, 294 f.;
Tempest, 37*, 222 f.*;
Troilus and Cressida, 138*;
Twelfth Night, 51 f.*;
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 221*;
Venus and Adonis, 92*.
Shakspere (and Fletcher): Two Noble Kinsmen, 85*.
Sharp, W., on the sonnet, 268 n.
Shelley: Adonais, 105 f.*;
Alastor, 243*;
Arethusa, 28*;
Epipsychidion, 210*;
Flight of Love, 50 f.*;
heroic verse of, 210;
Ode to Naples, 314 f.*;
Ode to West Wind, 66 f.*;
Ozymandias, 281 f.*;
Queen Mab, 329;
Sensitive Plant, 69*;
sonnets of, 282;
To a Skylark, 34*;
use of Spenserian stanza, 106;
view of verse-form in poetry, 422 f.
Shenstone, heroic stanza of, 73;
Pastoral Ballad, 35*;
Schoolmistress, 104.
Sherman, F. D.: Ballade to Austin Dobson, 366 f.*.
Sidney: Anacreontics, 332*;
Asclepiadics, 331*;
Astrophel and Stella, 74*, 77*, 256*, 272*, 273*, 291*;
Dorus and Zelmane, 340 f.*;
hexameters of, 341;
Mopsa, 266*;
Phaleuciakes, 331*;
Psalm VIII., 69*;
sonnets of, 273;
Thyrsis and Dorus, 65 f.*;
view of verse-form in poetry, 416 f.
Sievers, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 152 f.;
on stanzaic and stichic verse, 63.
Sir Fyrumbras, 261*.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 109, 155 f.*.
Skalagrimsson, Egil, 126.
Skeat, on sources of Chaucer's couplet, 178;
theory of English verse, 394 n.
Skelton: Colyn Cloute, 32*;
rime royal of, 94.
Song of Songs (French version), 81*.
Sonnet, 267-297;
bipartite structure of, 268, 270, 280, 282, 285, 286, 290, 293;
English form of, 290;
Italian form of, 270;