6§ C. Equivalence and Substitution
53XLII. The Continuous Alexandrine (Drayton and Browning)
7§ D. Pause
54XLIII
8§ E. Line-Combination
55XLIV. The Stages of the Metre of "Dolores" and the Dedication of "Poems and Ballads"
9§ F. Rhyme
56XLV. Long Metres of Tennyson, Browning, Morris, and Swinburne
10§ G. Miscellaneous
57XLVI. The Later Sonnet
11FOOTNOTES:
58XLVII. The Various Attempts at "Hexameters" in English
12I. Old English Period Scansion only dimly visible.
59XLVIII. Minor Imitations of Classical Metres
13II. Late Old English with Nisus towards Metre ("Grave" Poem. Guest's text, spelling, and accentuation; the usual marks for the latter being substituted for his dividing bars, and foot division added in dots.)
60XLIX. Imitations of Artificial French Forms
14III. Transition Period Metre struggling to assert itself in a New Way. Part of the verses of St. Godric.
61L. Later Rhymelessness
15IV. Early Middle English Period Attempt at merely Syllabic Uniformity with Unbroken Iambic Run and no Rhyme. Orm.
62LI. Some "Unusual" Metres and Disputed Scansions
16V. Early Middle English Period Conflict or Indecision between Accentual Rhythm and Metrical Scheme. Layamon.
63FOOTNOTES:
17VI. Early Middle English Period The Appearance and Development of the "Fourteener."
64BOOK II HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ENGLISH PROSODY
18VII. Early Middle English Period The Plain and Equivalenced Octosyllable.
65FOOTNOTES:
19VIII. Early Middle English Period The Romance-Six or "Rime Couée."
66FOOTNOTES:
20IX. Early Middle English Period Miscellaneous Stanzas.
67FOOTNOTES:
21X. Early Middle English Period Appearance of the Decasyllable.
68FOOTNOTES:
22XI. Later Middle English Period The Alliterative Revival—Pure.
69FOOTNOTES:
23XII. Later Middle English Period The Alliterative Revival—Mixed.
70FOOTNOTES:
24XIII. Later Middle English Period Potentially Metrical Lines in Langland (see Book II).
71I. Old English Period
25XIV. Later Middle English Period Scansions from Chaucer.
72II. Before or very soon after 1200 Earliest Middle English Period.
26XV. Later Middle English Period Variations from Strict Iambic Norm in Gower.
73III. Middle and Later Thirteenth Century Second Early Middle English Period.
27XVI. Transition Period Examples of Break-down in Literary Verse.
74IV. Earlier Fourteenth Century Central Period of Middle English.
28XVII. Transition Period Examples of True Prosody in Ballad, Carols, etc.
75V. Later Fourteenth Century Crowning Period of Middle English.
29XVIII. Transition Period Examples of Skeltonic and other Doggerel.
76VI. Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries The Decadence of Middle English Prosody.
30XIX. Transition Period Examples from the Scottish Poets.
77VII. Mid-Sixteenth Century The Recovery of Rhythm.
31XX. Early Elizabethan Period Examples of Reformed Metre from Wyatt, Surrey, and other Poets before Spenser.
78VIII. Late Sixteenth Century The Perfecting of Metre and of Poetical Diction.
32XXI. Spenser[37] at Different Periods
79IX. Early Seventeenth Century The further Development of Lyric, Stanza, and Blank Verse. Insurgence and Division of the Couplet.
33XXII. Examples of the Development of Blank Verse
80X. Mid-Seventeenth Century Milton.
34XXIII. Examples of Elizabethan Lyric
81XI. The Later Seventeenth Century Dryden.
35XXIV. Early Continuous Anapæsts
82XII. The Eighteenth Century
36XXV. The Enjambed Heroic Couplet (1580-1660)
83XIII. The Early Nineteenth Century and the Romantic Revival
37XXVI. The Stopped Heroic Couplet (1580-1660)
84XIV. The Later Nineteenth Century
38XXVII. Various Forms of Octosyllable-Heptasyllable (late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century)
85BOOK III HISTORICAL SURVEY OF VIEWS ON PROSODY
39XXVIII. "Common," "Long," and "In Memoriam" Measure (Seventeenth Century)
86FOOTNOTES:
40XXIX. Improved Anapæstic Measures (Dryden, Anon., Prior)
87FOOTNOTES:
41XXX. "Pindarics" (Seventeenth Century)
88FOOTNOTES:
42XXXI. The Heroic Couplet from Dryden to Crabbe
89BOOK IV AUXILIARY APPARATUS
43XXXII. Eighteenth-Century Blank Verse
90TABLE OF FEET
44XXXIII. The Regularised Pindaric Ode
91FOOTNOTES:
45XXXIV. Lighter Eighteenth-Century Lyric
92CHAPTER II REASONED LIST OF POETS WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO THEIR PROSODIC QUALITY AND INFLUENCE
46XXXV. The Revival of Equivalence (Chatterton and Blake)
93A. Lines
47XXXVI. Rhymeless Attempts (Collins to Shelley)
94B. Stanzas, etc.
