_Names of poems are arranged alphabetically under authors. An asterisk
in connection with the page number indicates that the poem is quoted at
least in part._
_Abraham and Isaac_ (Mystery Play), 112*.
Accents, arbitrary variation of, 400;
conflict of, 7-11;
deficiency in, 55,56;
degrees of, 3-5;
excess of 55, 57;
hovering, 9-11;
inversion of, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.;
kinds of, 3, 6;
relation of different kinds, 7;
relation to quantity, 405 f.;
secondary, 3, 5, 156, 409;
time-intervals of, 11, 393-396;
wrenched, 8-11.
ADDISON: _Campaign_, 199*;
_Cato_, 236*;
on verse of Butler, 167 f.
ÆLFRIC, verse of, 116 f.
AKENSIDE: _Pleasures of the Imagination_, 238;
_Virtuoso_, 104.
ALAMANNI, influence on Wyatt, 65.
ALBERTI, classical metres of, 330.
Alcaic stanza, 77.
Alexandrine, 252-259;
developed by Browning, 258;
French, 18;
in five-stress verse, 195, 208, 258;
in sonnet, 272 f.;
in Spenserian stanza, 103;
unrimed, 255;
used at end of stanzas other than Spenserian, 107.
Alliteration, 113, 116-121;
in mediæval Latin, 117;
sporadic, 135.
"Alliterative long line," 119, 156.
ALSCHER, on Wyatt, 11.
Anacrusis, 25.
Anapest, 24;
substituted for iambus, 58 f.
Anapestic verse, two-stress, 28 f.;
three-stress, 34-36;
four-stress, 39 f.;
five-stress, 42;
six-stress, 43;
seven-stress, 45;
eight-stress, 48;
in _vers de société_, 39.
ANDERSON, M. B.: _Inferno_, 68 f.*.
ANDERSON, R., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182.
Anglo-Saxon verse, alliteration in, 116 f.;
relation of accent and quantity in, 405 f.;
rime in, 124, 125 f.;
stanzas in, 62 n.;
two theories of, 151-154;
types of, 152 f.
ARCHER, W., on Watson's sonnets, 290.
Areopagus, 332 f.
ARISTOPHANES, Swinburne on verse of, 45 f.
ARISTOTLE, his theory of metre, 413-416.
ARNOLD, M.: _East London_, 286*;
_Empedocles on Ætna_, 325-327*;
_Forsaken Merman_, 5*, 22 f.*, 53 f.*;
_Future_, 115*;
on Chapman's septenary, 262;
on English hexameters, 351-353;
on Longfellow's hexameters, 348;
_Sohrab and Rustum_, 58*, 249 f.*.
ARNAUT, the troubadour, sestina of, 383.
"Ascending rhythm," 24.
ASCHAM: _Schoolmaster_, 330, 341.
Asclepiadean verse, 331.
Assonance, 113-115;
in Celtic verse, 115;
in verse of Romance languages, 113 f.
ATTERBURY, on Dryden's influence, 197;
on Waller, 188 f.
_Aurora lucis rutilat_, 160*.
BACON, F., on significant sounds, 136.
BAÏF, DE, A., classical metre of, 331.
Ballade, 360-367.
Ballads, stanza of, 70, 264;
verse of, 10, 157.