"_Monk's Tale_ stanza," 97.
_Monologue d'outre Tombe_, 386*.
MOODY, W. V.: _Menagerie_, 91*;
_Ode in Time of Hesitation_, 321-323*.
MOORE, T.: _Believe me, if all those endearing young charms_, 40*;
_Down in yon Summervale_, 121 n.*;
_Go Where Glory Waits Thee_, 33 f.*.
MORRIS, R., on early octosyllabic verse, 162.
MORRIS, W.: _Earthly Paradise_, 93 f.*, 173*;
_Fair Spring Morning_, 329;
_Folk-Mote by the River_, 159*;
_Jason_, 213*.
MOULTON, R. G., on Browning's _Caliban_, 32.
MOUSSET, classical metres of, 331.
Music, its relation to verse, 391-396, 407 n., 413 f., 434-436.
_Must I be Carried to the Skies_, 262*.
Mystery plays, verse of, 94 f., 112, 265.
NASH, T., on English hexameters, 342;
Preface to _Menaphon_, 215.
_Ne mai no lewed_, etc., 109 f.*.
NEWCOMER, A. G., on wrenched accent, 10.
NEWMAN, metre of his _Iliad_ translation, 262.
NORDEN, on rime, 125.
Norse verse, influence on Anglo-Saxon, 126;
stanza in, 63.
_Nutbrowne Maide_ (ballad), 132*.
OCCLEVE, rime royal of, 94.
Octosyllabic couplet, 160-173.
Ode (The), 298-329.
OLDHAM, J.: _Satires upon the Jesuits_, 192*.
Onomatop[oe]ia, 135 f.
_Ormulum_, 260*.
O'SHAUGHNESSY, A.: _Fountain of Tears_, 36*.
OTFRIED, verse of, 123, 124.
_Ottava rima,_ 98-101;
possible source of sonnet, 267.
OTWAY: _Venice Preserved_, 235*.
_Owl and the Nightingale_, 162*.
Pantoum, 385-388.
PARIS, G., on Machault, 178.
PARNELL: _Night-Piece on Death_, 168*.
PASSERAT, J.: _Villanelle_, 377*.
_Passion of our Lord_, 254.
_Pater Noster_, 161*.
_Patience_, 155*.
PATMORE: _Amelia_, 319 n.*;
_Ode_, 318*;
on the ode, 319;
_Unknown Eros_, 319.
Pauses, 16-23;
varied to preserve metrical time, 404 f.
PAYNE, J., virelai of, 385.
PEACOCK, T. L.: _Misfortunes of Elphin_, 33*.
_Pearl, The,_ 109*.
PECK, S. M.: _Under the Rose_, 382*.
PEELE: _Arraignment of Paris_, 218*.
PETRARCA: _Sonnet_, 271*.
Phalæcian verse, 331, 338.
PHILIPS, J.: _Cider_, 238.
PHILLIPS, S.: _Marpessa_, 251;
_Paolo and Francesca_, 250 f.*.
_Ph[oe]nix_, 153*.
Pindaric ode, 298, 299-307.
Pitch-accent, so-called, 5 f.
PITT, W., 131 n.
POE: _Lenore_, 134*;
on English hexameter, 349;
_Rationale of Verse_, 392;
_Raven_, 47*.
_Poema Morale_, 127*, 260.
POPE, A.: _Essay on Criticism_, 12*, 57*, 142*, 199 f.*;
_Iliad_, 200 f.*;
on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
on verse of Dryden, 194;
rules of verse, 201 f.;
_Solitude_, 27*.
Poulter's Measure, 255, 265 f.
Pre-Raphaelites, 10.
_Preservation of King Henry VII_., 343.
PRIOR: _Better Answer_, 39*.
Provençal, lyrical forms of, 358, 383.
PUTTENHAM, G.: _Arte of English Poesie_ cited, 8 n., 18, 94 n., 334 n.
Pyrrhic, 49, 55, 56.
Quantity in English, 391-406;
in English verse, 330, 332 f., 338, 354 f., 356, 357.
Quatrains, 69-77.
_Quinque Gaudia_, 85*.
RALEIGH, W.: _Pilgrim to Pilgrim_, 35*.
RANCHIN: _Triolet_, 381*.
READ, T. B.: _Drifting_, 88*.
Refrain stanzas, 78-90.
_Regulae de Rhythmis_, 81*.
Rhythm, arts of, 413 f.;
change of, 53-55, 61.
_Rhythmus_, meaning of, 124.
RICH, B.: _Don Simonides_, 219.
RIEGER, on rime in Anglo-Saxon, 126 n.
Rime, 113, 121-135;
as organizer of stanza, 63;
broken, 131 f.;
defended by Daniel, 336 n.;
feminine, 121, 128 f.;
functions of, 122;
imperfect, 122 n.;
in Butler's _Hudibras_, 167 f.;
in drama, 196-199;
internal, 132-135
(in ballads, 70;
in Middle English alexandrines, 255;
in septenary, 259-261);
objections to, 122 f.;
origin of, 123-125;
suspected by classicists, 214, 232, 330;
triple, 121, 128-131.
_Rime couée_, 80-86;
in French, 81;
in Latin, 80 f.
Rime royal, 93 f.;
in Chaucer's _Balade_, 361.
_Riming Poem_ (Anglo-Saxon), 125 f.*.
ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER: _Chronicle_, 265.
ROBERTSON, J. M., his theories of English verse, 24 n., 392-394,
400, 403.
_Robin Hood_ (ballad), 70*, 263*.
_Roland, Chanson de_, 113 f.*.
Romance languages, assonance in, 113.
Romance metres, regular time-intervals in, 12, 14 n.
Rondeau, 368, 371-376.
Rondel, 368-371.
ROSSETTI: _Ballad of Dead Ladies_, 362 f.*;
_Blessed Damozel_, 7*;
_House of Life_, 284*, 285*;
_Love's Nocturn_, 146*;
_My Sister's Sleep_, 75*;
on Drayton's sonnet, 293;
_Penumbra_, 135*;
_Rose Mary_, 91*;
_Sister Helen_, 80*;
sonnets of, 285;
_Sunset Wings_, 89*;
_To Death_ (rondeau), 374*;
_Willowwood_, 9*.
Roundel, in Chaucer, 369;
Swinburne's form of, 376.
ROWLANDS, S., verse of, 190.
"Run-on" lines, 19 (see also _Enjambement_).
RUSSELL, T., sonnets of, 277.
SACKVILLE: _Mirror for Magistrates_, 94.
SACKVILLE (and NORTON): _Gorboduc_, 217*.
SAINTSBURY, on alexandrine, 258 f.;
on Blair, 237;
on Dryden's couplet, 194 f.;
on Dryden's dactyls, 40;
on heroic stanza, 73;
on Shenstone, 35 f.;
on Thomson, 238.
SANDYS, G., heroic couplets of, 189 f., 191;
influence on Pope's verse, 201;
_Metamorphoses_, 191*;
_Paraphrase of Luke_, 63*.
Satire, heroic couplet in, 181, 182, 183, 206.
_Satire on People of Kildare_, 91*.
Scandinavian verse, influence in England, 126.
SCHELLING, F. E., on Campion's classical metres, 335 f.;
on influence of Jonson's verse, 186;
on Raleigh's anapests, 35.
SCHILLER, elegiac distich of, 346;
on rhythm in the drama, 433.
SCHIPPER, on accent, 3;
on Anglo-Saxon alliteration, 117;
on early imitation of classical verse, 330 f.;
on Layamon, 119;
on the octosyllabic couplet, 161;
on Poulter's Measure, 265;
on rime, 123-125;
on rime in Cynewulf, 126 n.;
on rime royal, 94;
on _Riming Poem_, 126;
on Romance stanza-forms, 110 f.;
on the sonnet, 270;
on the stanza, 62;
on tumbling verse, 158 n.;
on types of alexandrine, 255;
on "unaccented rime," 121 n.
SCHLEGEL., A. W., on tone-color, 137.
SCHRÖER, on early blank verse, 218.
SCOLLARD, C.: _Villanelle_, 380*.
SCOTT, W.: _Hunting Song_, 13*;
_Lady of the Lake_, 29*, 172*.
_Scottish Field_ (ballad), 120 f.*.
Scottish verse, alliteration in, 120.
_Sdruciolla_, 215.
SEAMAN, O.: _Battle of the Bays_, 329 n.*.
Septenary, 259-264;
in drama, 218;
internal rime in, 132;
mingled with alexandrine, 252, 253 f., 261, 265;
unrimed, 260, 262.
SERAFINO: _Strambotti_, 272.
Sestina, 383-385.
SHAKSPERE: _As You Like It_, 57*;
blank verse of, 223 f.;
_Henry V._, 140*;
heroic verse of, 184;
_It was a lover_, etc., 9*;
_Julius Cæsar_, 58*;
_King John_, 20*;
_Love's Labor's Lost_, 38*, 183 f.*;
_Macbeth_, 20*;
_Measure for Measure_, 20*, 222*;
_Merchant of Venice_, 57*;
_Midsummer Night's Dream_, 26*, 31*, 139*;
_Much Ado_, 215;
_Ph[oe]nix and the Turtle_, 63*, 74*;
_Rape of Lucrece_, 93*;
_Richard II._, 20*;
_Romeo and Juliet_, 7*, 57*;
_Sonnets_, 293*, 294*;
sonnets of, 294 f.;
_Tempest_, 37*, 222 f.*;
_Troilus and Cressida_, 138*;
_Twelfth Night_, 51 f.*;
_Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 221*;
_Venus and Adonis_, 92*.
SHAKSPERE (and FLETCHER): _Two Noble Kinsmen_, 85*.
SHARP, W., on the sonnet, 268 n.
SHELLEY: _Adonais_, 105 f.*;
_Alastor_, 243*;
_Arethusa_, 28*;
_Epipsychidion_, 210*;
_Flight of Love_, 50 f.*;
heroic verse of, 210;
_Ode to Naples_, 314 f.*;
_Ode to West Wind_, 66 f.*;
_Ozymandias_, 281 f.*;
_Queen Mab_, 329;
_Sensitive Plant_, 69*;
sonnets of, 282;
_To a Skylark_, 34*;
use of Spenserian stanza, 106;
view of verse-form in poetry, 422 f.
SHENSTONE, heroic stanza of, 73;
_Pastoral Ballad_, 35*;
_Schoolmistress_, 104.
SHERMAN, F. D.: _Ballade to Austin Dobson_, 366 f.*.
SIDNEY: _Anacreontics_, 332*;
_Asclepiadics_, 331*;
_Astrophel and Stella_, 74*, 77*, 256*, 272*, 273*, 291*;
_Dorus and Zelmane_, 340 f.*;
hexameters of, 341;
_Mopsa_, 266*;
_Phaleuciakes_, 331*;
_Psalm VIII_., 69*;
sonnets of, 273;
_Thyrsis and Dorus_, 65 f.*;
view of verse-form in poetry, 416 f.
SIEVERS, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 152 f.;
on stanzaic and stichic verse, 63.
_Sir Fyrumbras_, 261*.
_Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_, 109, 155 f.*.
SKALAGRIMSSON, Egil, 126.
SKEAT, on sources of Chaucer's couplet, 178;
theory of English verse, 394 n.
SKELTON: _Colyn Cloute_, 32*;
rime royal of, 94.
_Song of Songs_ (French version), 81*.
Sonnet, 267-297;
bipartite structure of, 268, 270, 280, 282, 285, 286, 290, 293;
English form of, 290;
Italian form of, 270;
revived in 18th century, 277;
sequences, 273;
"Ten Commandments" of, 268 n.
Sonnets on the sonnet, 278, 279, 284, 288.
Sound-qualities of verse made expressive of sense, 135-137.
SOUTHEY: _Curse of Kehama_, 329;
hexameters of, 347 f.;
_Sapphics_, 337*;
_Vision of Judgment_, 347*.
Spanish verse, 28, 115;
assonance in, 114.
SPEDDING, J., on English hexameter, 351.
SPENSER: _Amoretti_, 293*;
_Faerie Queene_, 102*;
free cesura in, 17;
interest in classical metres, 332 f.;
_Mother Hubbard's Tale_, 181*;
_Shepherd's Calendar_, 15*, 89*, 158 f.*, 179 f.*;
_Tetrasticon_, 332*;
tumbling verse of, 159;
unrimed sonnets of, 219;
_Virgil's Gnat_, 98 f.*.
Spenserian sonnet, 293*.
Spenserian stanza, 102-106;
stanzas influenced by, 107 f.
Spondee, 56, 57.
STANYHURST, R.: _Æneid_, 341 f.*;
hexameters of, 342 f.
Stanzas, 62-112;
complex forms of, under French influence, 110;
formed by refrains, 78;
how determined and described, 62;
tail-rime, 80-86.
STEDMAN, E. C., on rhythm in poetry, 432 f.
STENGEL, on French alexandrine, 252;
on French decasyllabic verse, 177 f.;
on octosyllabic verse, 160.
STETSON, C. P.: _A Man Must Live_, 375 f.*.
STEVENSON, R. L., on tone-color, 138.
Stichic verse, 62.
STILLINGFLEET, B., sonnets of, 277.
_Stond wel, moder_, 84*.
STONE, W. J.: _Odyssey_, 356*;
on quantity in English verse, 356 f.
Stress (see Accent).
Substitution of feet, 55-61.
SUCKLING: _A Soldier_, 86*.
_Suete iesu, king of blysse_, 69*.
SURREY, EARL OF, accents in verse of, 10;
_Æneid_, 215 f.*;
_How no Age is Content_, 266*;
inventor of English sonnet, 290;
_Psalm LV_., 255*;
_Restless State of a Lover_, 71*;
_Sonnet_, 290*;
verse of, 216.
SWIFT: _Death of Dr. Swift_, 169 f.*.
SWINBURNE: _Armada_, 51*, 134*;
_Atalanta in Calydon_, 9*, 146*;
_Ballad of François Villon_, 367*;
_Birds_, 45*;
_Century of Roundels_, 42*;
_Choriambics_, 340*;
_Death of Wagner_, 60*;
_Garden of Cymodoce_, 43*;
_Hendecasyllabics_, 338;
_Hesperia_, 44*;
_Last Oracle_, 43*;
_Laus Veneris_, 78*;
_Leper_, 9*;
_March_, 13*, 48*;
_Night in Guernsey_, 47*;
on choral ode of Milton, 325;
on English hexameters, 353 f.;
on sonnets of Wordsworth, 280;
_On the Cliffs_, 329;
on Whitman, 431 n.;
_Roundel_, 376*;
_Sapphics_, 340*;
_Seaboard_, 51*;
_Song in Season_, 28*;
_Thalassius_, 329;
_Tristram of Lyonesse_, 212*;
_Winter in Northumberland_, 130 f.*, 147*.
Syllable-counting, in Surrey's verse, 216;
want of, in early English verse, 16, 112, 151.
Syllables, artificially varied in length when in metre, 401-404;
kinds of accented, 3.
SYMONDS, J. A., on blank verse, 214, 232, 233;
of 18th century, 239;
of _Gorboduc_, 217;
of Jonson, 225;
of Keats, 242;
of Marlowe, 220 f.;
of Shakspere, 222;
of Tennyson, 246;
of Webster, 229;
on heroic verse of the romantic poets, 210;
_Sonnets on the Thought of Death_, 287 f.*.
Tailed sonnet, 276.
Tail-rime (see _Rime couée_).
TAYLOR, B.: _Home Pastorals_, 349*;
_National Ode_, 320 f.*.
TAYLOR, W., on German and English hexameters, 345;
_Ossian's Hymn to the Sun_, 344 f.*.
TEN BRINK, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 151 f.;
on Chaucer's verse, 177, 178;
on early five-stress verse, 175;
on verse of court romances, 164 f.;
on verse of _King Horn_, 155.
TENNYSON: _Alcaics on Milton_, 337*;
blank verse of, 246;
_Boadicea_, 339;
_Break, break, break_, 21*;
_Charge of the Light Brigade_, 30*;
_Coming of Arthur_, 143;
_Daisy_, 77;
elegiac distich of, 346*;
_Enoch Arden_, 58*, 59*, 144*;
_Geraint and Enid_, 59*;
_Hendecasyllabics_, 337 f.*;
_In Memoriam_, 75 f.*;
_Locksley Hall_, 13*, 46 f.*;
_Lotos-Eaters_, 106*;
_Maud_, 32*, 42*, 43*, 52*, 317;
_Merlin and Vivien_, 58*;
_Montenegro_, 285 f.*;
_Northern Farmer_, 44*;
_[OE]none_, 59*;
on English hexameters, 353;
on quantity in English, 338;
_Oriana_, 80*;
_Palace of Art_, 74*;
_Passing of Arthur_, 244*;
_Princess_, 8*, 58*, 134*, 144 f.*, 245*, 246*;
_Queen Mary_, 245*;
_Sapphics_, 339*;
sonnets of, 286;
_Tears, Idle Tears_, 246*;
_To Maurice_, 77*;
_Two Voices_, 64*;
_Vision of Sin_, 41*, 54 f.*;
_Wellington Ode_, 315 f.*.
Tercets, 63-69.
Terminology, classical in English verse, 24 n., 406-409.
_Terza rima,_ 65-69.
THACKERAY, irregular verse in ballads of, 158 n.;
_Sorrows of Werther_, 47*;
_What Makes my Heart_, etc., 132*.
THOMSON, as imitator of Spenser's verse, 104;
_Castle of Indolence_, 103*, 143*;
_Seasons_, 237 f.*.
THOMSON, J.: _City of Dreadful Night_, 95*.
TILLBROOK, S., on Southey's hexameters, 347 n.
Time-element in English verse, 391-409.
Time-intervals, 11-23;
irregular, 13-16;
regular, 12 f.;
the basis of metrical feet, 408.
TODHUNTER, on Shelley's verse, 106.