CHAPTER XI

THE RHYMED FIVE-FOOT VERSE

§ 151. Rhymed five-foot verse in Middle English 209

152. Sixteen types of five-foot verse 210

153. Earliest specimens of this metre 212

154. Chaucer's five-foot verse; treatment of the caesura 213

155. Masculine and feminine endings; rhythmic licences 214

156. Gower's five-foot verse; its decline 215

157. Rhymed five-foot verse in Modern English 216

158. Its use in narrative poetry and by Shakespeare 217

159. The heroic verse of Dryden, Pope, and later writers 218

DIVISION III. VERSE-FORMS OCCURRING IN MODERN ENGLISH

POETRY ONLY

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