LINES OF EIGHT FEET, FOUR FEET, TWO FEET, AND ONE FOOT
§ 125. The eight-foot line and its resolution into four-foot
lines 183
126. Examples of the four-foot line 183
127. Treatment of the caesura in four-foot verse 185
128. Treatment of four-foot verse in North English and
Scottish writings 186
129. Its treatment in the Midlands and the South 187
130. Combinations of four-foot and three-foot verse in
Middle English 188
131-2. Freer variety of this metre in Modern English 188
133. Two-foot verse 190
134. One-foot verse 191