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
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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO English Versification.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. VERSE GENERALLY.
CHAPTER II. CLASSIC VERSIFICATION.
CHAPTER III. GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS.
CHAPTER IV. OF FEET AND CÆSURA.
CHAPTER V. METRE AND RHYTHM.
CHAPTER VI. OF RHYME.
CHAPTER VII. OF FIGURES.
CHAPTER VIII. OF BURLESQUE AND COMIC VERSE, AND VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ.
CHAPTER IX. OF SONG-WRITING.
DICTIONARY OF RHYMES.
APPENDIX[19]
Rules for Making English Verse.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
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.
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