DOBSON, A., ballades of, 367;
_Dance of Death_, 368;
on French lyrical forms, 358f.;
on _ottava rima_, 101;
on Pope, 203;
_Rose Leaves_, 381f.*;
_Too Hard it is to Sing_, 269f.*;
_When I Saw you Last, Rose_, 378*;
_With Pipe and Flute_, 374*.
DONNE, critics on the verse of, 183;
_Holy Sonnets_, 274f.*;
influence of, on lyrical forms of 17th century, 90;
_La Corona_, 275;
_Satires_, 183*.
DOUGLAS, G.: _Palace of Honour_, 101*, 133*.
DOWDEN, on Shakspere's verse, 184.
Drama, rime in, 184;
verse of, characteristic, 395.
DRAYTON: _Agincourt_, 86*;
_Amouret Anacreontic_, 26*;
_Idea_, 273, 293;
_Love's Farewell_, 292*;
_Polyolbion_, 256f.*.
DRUMMOND, W.: _Sonnet_, 274*.
DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel_, 56f.*, 193f.*;
_Alexander's Feast_, 310;
_All for Love_, 196, 234*;
_Annus Mirabilis_, 72*;
blank verse of, 234f.;
_Conquest of Granada_, 196;
_Evening's Love_, 40*;
heroic couplet of, 194f.;
his introduction of rimed dramatic verse, 196-199;
_Indian Queen_, 196;
_Marriage à la Mode_, 195f.*, 234*;
_Ode for St. Cecilia's Day_, imitated by Young, 88;
_Ode on Mistress Killigrew_, 309f.*;
odes of, 310;
on heroic stanza, 72;
on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
on verse of Donne, 183;
_Song for St. Cecilia's Day_, 52f.*, 142*.
DU BARTAS: _La Première Semaine_, 18*.
DUNBAR: _Lament for the Makaris_, 78*;
rime royal of, 94;
_Tua Mariit Wemen_, 119f.*.
EDWARDS, T., sonnets of, 277.
Elegiacs (hexameter and pentameter), 346, 355f.
_Eleven Pains of Hell_, 161.
ELIOT, GEORGE: _Spanish Gypsy_, 28*, 37*, 114*.
Elision, 59f.
ELLIS, A. J., on degrees of accent, 3, 4n.
ELLIS, R.:
_Attis_, 339*;
_Hymenæus of Catullus_, 339*;
on classical metres, 339.
"End-stopped" lines, 19, 187-190.
_Enjambement_, 19:
avoidance of in heroic verse, 187, 202;
in Chaucer, 177;
in couplets of the romantic poets, 208-212;
in Milton, 233;
in Shakspere's verse, 223.
ETHEREDGE: _Comical Revenge_, 196.
_Fair Helen_ (ballad), 9*, 79*.
_Farmer's Complaint_, 14.
Feet, as measures of verse, 24;
combinations and substitutions of, 49;
names of, 24, 55f., 408f.
Feminine ending, 25, 33;
in Elizabethan blank verse, 226-228.
Feminine rime, 121, 128f.
FITZGERALD: _Rubáiyát_, 77*.
Five-stress verse, 174-251;
early examples of, 175;
introduced by Chaucer, 177.
FLETCHER, G.: _Lycia_, 273.
FLETCHER, J., blank verse of, 226-228;
couplets of, 210;
_Faithful Shepherdess_, 184f.*;
_Valentinian_, 225*.
FLETCHER, J. (and SHAKSPERE): _Two Noble Kinsmen_, 85*.
FLETCHER, J. B., on Spenser, 17.
FLETCHER, P.: _Piscatory Eclogues_, 107*.
Foot, significance of the term, 24, 393-395, 406-408.
_Fortunae rota volvitur_, 259*.
Four-stress verse, 151-173.
French alexandrine, relation to English, 252f.
French influence, on stanza forms, 63, 82f., 110.
French lyrical forms, imitation of, 358-385.
French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.;
influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190;
perfect rime in, 121 n.;
regular cesura in, 17, 18;
influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f., 163 n.
French words, accent of, 11.
FRERE, J. H.: _Monks and the Giants_, 100*.