Historical Manual of English Prosody

accent actual Alexandrine alliterative amphibrach anapæstic appears arrangement attempt ballad batches beautiful blank verse cadence cæsura catalectic Chaucer Christabel classical Coleridge dactylic decasyllabic decasyllabic couplet decasyllable dimeter dissyllabic doggerel doubt Dryden early effect eighteenth century elision Elizabethan English poetry English prosody English verse enjambed equivalence equivalenced especially examples fact fifteenth foot fourteener French Greek heroic couplet iamb iambic imitated important Italian kind language later Latin Layamon line-length lyric master measure metre metrical Middle English Milton monosyllabic octave octosyllabic couplet octosyllable pause perhaps period Pindaric poems poet poetic poulter's measure practice present writer principles probably pronunciation prose prosodists Provençal quatrain redundance regular remarkable rhyme rhyme-royal rhythm scanned scansion seventeenth Shakespeare short sixteenth century sometimes song sonnet Spenser Spenserian spondee stanza stress Swinburne syllables Tennyson thee things thou trimeter trisyllabic feet trochaic trochee variation varied variety versification vowel words