The Elements of English Versification

abab Alcaic stanza Alexandrine Áll alliteration Anacrusis anapestic antistrophe ARNOLD arsis assonance ballade birds BROWNING BURNS called catalectic catalexis cesura consonants continuous couplet dactylic dactylic hexameter dissyllabic doth dreams earth effect eight-line stanza end-words English poetry envoy example eyes Faerie Queene feet flowers foot frequently half-line hath heart Heaven heptameter hexameter iambic pentameter ictus imitation imperfect rime initial rime KEATS length light lines melody meter MILTON morn night o'er octameter Paradise Lost pause poets prose quatrain rhyme rhythm rhythmical rime-scheme Ring Rose ROSSETTI roundel scansion Scholar Gipsy secondary accent secondary word-accent septenary SHAKESPEARE SHELLEY sing six-line group song sonnet soul sound SPENSER Spenserian stanzaic stichic verse stress structure sweet SWINBURNE tail-rime TENNYSON terza rima tetrameter thee thou thought tone-color trimeter trochaic tumbling verse unaccented unrimed unstressed syllable verse-stresses versification vowel W. E. HENLEY WILLIAM MORRIS wings words WORDSWORTH