a handbook of modern english metre

accent accentual verse alliteration amphibrach anacrusis anap anapaestic anapaestic metres assonance beauty breathed Chapters on Metre cretic dactylic dark death disyllabic Dorian Editor Price effect eight-foot English Metre examples EXERCISES ON CHAPTER extra syllable eyes feet feminine ending five-foot iambic following lines foot four-foot anapaestic four-foot iambic give glory Hamlet hath heart heaven hexameter hymn hypermetrical syllable I O O iamb iambic line imitation initial truncation internal rhyme internal truncation irregular latter light long vowels Love's Labour's Lost marked Masson Matthew Arnold Maud metrists Milton monosyllable O O I o'er onomatopoeia passion pause poem poetry poets Pope pyrrhic refrain rhythm sestet Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's six-foot sleep slurring soft song sorrow sound spondaic spondee stanza stress substitution superfluous syllable sweet Swinburne Tennyson thee thou three-foot trisyllabic metre trochaic trochaic metre trochee two-foot unaccented syllables variation verse wind word