English Verse, Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History, by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D
by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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About this eBook
- Author
- Alden, Raymond MacDonald, 1873-1924
- Title
- English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History
- Credits
- Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Versification
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32262
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32262
- Release Date
- May 5, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ENGLISH VERSE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.PART ONE — ENGLISH VERSE — I. ACCENT AND TIME — A.—KINDS OF ACCENT — B.—TIME-INTERVALS — FOOTNOTES: — II. THE FOOT AND THE VERSE — COMBINATIONS AND SUBSTITUTIONS — FOOTNOTES: — III. THE STANZA — TERCETS — QUATRAINS — REFRAIN STANZAS — FOOTNOTES:
- 5.IV. TONE-QUALITY — A. AS A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT — B. AS A SPORADIC ELEMENT (TONE-COLOR) — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.PART TWO — I. FOUR-STRESS VERSE — A.—NON-SYLLABLE-COUNTING — B.—SYLLABLE-COUNTING (OCTOSYLLABIC COUPLET) — FOOTNOTES: — II. FIVE-STRESS VERSE — A.—THE DECASYLLABIC COUPLET — B.—BLANK VERSE — FOOTNOTES: — III. SIX-STRESS AND SEVEN-STRESS VERSE — A.—THE ALEXANDRINE (IAMBIC HEXAMETER) — B.—THE SEPTENARY — C.—THE "POULTER'S MEASURE." — IV. THE SONNET — A.—THE REGULAR (ITALIAN) SONNET — B.—THE ENGLISH (SHAKSPERIAN) SONNET — FOOTNOTES: — V. THE ODE — A.—REGULAR PINDARIC — B.—IRREGULAR (COWLEYAN) — C.—CHORAL — FOOTNOTES: — VI. IMITATIONS OF CLASSICAL METRES — A.—LYRICAL MEASURES — B.—DACTYLIC HEXAMETER — FOOTNOTES: — VII. IMITATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL FRENCH LYRICAL FORMS — A.—THE BALLADE — B.—THE RONDEAU AND RONDEL — C.—THE VILLANELLE — D.—THE TRIOLET — E.—THE SESTINA — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.PART THREE — THE TIME-ELEMENT IN ENGLISH VERSE [49] — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.PART FOUR — THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF THE METRICAL ELEMENT IN POETRY — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.APPENDIX — TABLE ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE HEROIC COUPLET — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.INDEX — Transcriber's Notes:
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