The Elements of English Versification

abab Alcaic stanza Alexandrine Áll alliteration Anacrusis anapestic antistrophe ARNOLD arsis assonance ballade BROWNING called catalectic catalexis cesura consonants continuous couplet dactylic dactylic hexameter dissyllabic doth dreams earth effect end-words English poetry envoy example eyes Faerie Queene feet flowers foot frequently grouping half-line hath heart Heaven heptameter hexameter iambic pentameter ictus imitation imperfect rime initial rime KEATS King of wind light lines lyrical melody meter MILTON morn night o'er octameter Paradise Lost pause poets POPE prose quatrain rhyme rhythm rhythmical rime-scheme Ring Rose ROSSETTI roundel scansion Scholar Gipsy secondary accent secondary word-accent septenary SHAKESPEARE SHELLEY sing sleep song sonnet soul sound SPENSER stanzaic stichic verse stress structure sweet SWINBURNE tail-rime TENNYSON terza rima tetrameter thee thou thought tone-color trimeter trochaic tumbling verse unaccented unrimed unstressed syllable verse-stresses versification vowel W. E. HENLEY WILLIAM MORRIS wings words WORDSWORTH