A Practical Guide to English Versification

About this eBook

Author

Hood, Tom, 1835-1874

Title

Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, readbueno and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Rhyme

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51873

Release Date

April 26, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PRACTICAL GUIDE TO English Versification.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. VERSE GENERALLY.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. CLASSIC VERSIFICATION.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. OF FEET AND CÆSURA.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. METRE AND RHYTHM.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. OF RHYME.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. OF FIGURES.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. OF BURLESQUE AND COMIC VERSE, AND VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ .
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. OF SONG-WRITING. — DICTIONARY OF RHYMES.
14. 14.APPENDIX [19]
15. 15.Rules for Making English Verse.
16. 16.CHAPTER I.
17. 17.CHAPTER II.
18. 18.CHAPTER III. — Section I. — Of the poems composed in couplets. — Section II. — Of the poems composed in stanzas; and first, of the stanzas consisting of three and of four verses. — Section III. — Of the stanzas of six verses. — Section IV. — Of the stanzas of eight verses. — Section V. — Of the stanzas of ten and twelve verses. — Section VI. — Of the stanzas that consist of an odd — Section VII. — Of Pindaric odes, and poems in blank verse.
19. 19.FOOTNOTES:

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