The Metres of English Poetry

Alexandrine amphibrach anapaests ballad base beauty beginning blank verse break Canto century characteristic Coleridge common dactyllic death disyllabic doth double ending double rhyme drama dream echo effect elegiac Elizabethan enclosed rhyme endstopped England's Helicon English eyes five-foot line four-foot couplet four-foot line give hath heart heroic couplet hexameter iamb iambic Keats King last line Latin light syllables Locksley Hall London loue lyric measure metre metrical metrists Milton modulation monosyllabic monosyllable movement narrative never night o'er occasional octave overflow paeon Paradise passage passion pause Petrarcan Petrarch phrases Poems Poetical poetry poets prose prosody pyrrhic quatrain rhyme scheme rhythm rhythmic Rime Rossetti Sapphic scan scansion seems sestet Shakespeare short lines Songes and Sonettes sonnet sound speech Spenser spondee stress sweet Swinburne syllable technique Tennyson thee thou triplet trisyllabic feet trochaic trochee vowel words Wordsworth