English Verse: Theory and history

19th century accentual structure adjectives adverbs anacrusis Arden of Faversham atypical syllables average Ballad Browning Byron canonical Chaucer Cymbeline disyllabic words dol'nik Donne Donne's dramatic iambic pentameter dramatic verse Dryden Duchess of Malfi Elegies example extrametrical extrametrical stresses Floris and Blancheflour fragment genres iamb iambic pentameter iambic tetrameter ictic positions ictic stress ictus irregular Jonson juncture inversions King Horn lines containing Marlowe maximum meter metrical indices Middle English monosyllabic monosyllables native-English non-ictic positions non-ictic stresses noncorrespondences nondramatic iambic pentameter noniambic nouns number of lines occur omissions Percy phrasal stress poems polysyllabic words Pope pronouns prose models rhythm rhythmic inversions Rossetti Russian Satyres second syllable secondary stress Shakespeare Shelley Sonnets Southey stress profile strong stresses suffixes Swinburne syllabic duplications syllabic positions syllabic structure syllabic verse syllabo-tonic syntagm Table Tennyson ternary three-ictic threshold Titus Andronicus total number triphthong trisyllabic combinations trochaic unstressed syllables variant verbs verse form vowel word stress