A Study of Metre

A. J. Ellis accent amphibrach analysis anapaests blank Browning's cadence chapter choriambs common consonants contain Coventry Patmore critics dactyls dissyllabic dissyllable doubt dropped syllable duple and triple duple metre duple period duple rising effect English metre English prosody English verse equal fact feet followed four syllables give Greek heroic line heroic verse hexameter higher critic iambic iambs Ibid instances italicized syllables latter length less measure metrical metrists Milton monopressure naturally number of syllables occupy Paradise Lost pause Pease pudding Poems and Ballads poetry poets principle Prof prose prosody quadruple quantity quoted reader rhyme rhythmical rule scansion seems silent Song sound speech spondees stanza stress structure Swinburne Swinburne's temporal Tennyson's theory thou three syllables time-measure time-spaces tion triple falling triple metre triple periods triple rhythm triplets trisyllables trochee type of verse uniformity units usually utterance vowel words write