English Versification for the Use of Students

A. C. Swinburne accent and emphasis accented syllables added syllable Æneid Alexandrine Áll alliteration Amphibrach Anapæstic antistrophe ballade beginning blank verse Browning Byron cæsural pause called chant royal chapter Chaucer Coleridge consists consonants couplets dactylic hexameter dárk difference dimeter English verse envoy expression extra syllables feet foot form of verse fourth give Gosse half-line hath heart iambic pentameter Iambic trimeter iambus imitation language Latin length light lóng Longfellow lyric marked Marlowe measure metre Milton monometer movement nature night number of lines number of syllables occur pínes poem poetry poets prose pyrrhic quantity rhyme order rhythmic effect séa seen sentence Septenary sestina Shakespeare slurred sometimes song speech spondee stress Surrey sweet Swinburne syllable Pause Tennyson thě thee third line thou tone-color trimeter trochee unaccented syllables unit of rhythm Villanelle vine-god sing voice vowel vowel sounds W. E. Henley whát words