Element

113   i. Assonance 113  ii. Alliteration 116 iii. End-rime 121 Double and triple rime 128 Broken rime 131 Internal rime 132 B.—As a Sporadic Element (Tone-color) 135 PART TWO I. Four-stress Verse 151 A.—Non-syllable-counting 151 B.—Syllable-counting (Octosyllabic Couplet) 160 II. Five-stress Verse 174 A.—-The Decasyllabic Couplet 174 B.—Blank Verse 213 III. Six-stress and Seven-stress Verse 252 A.—The Alexandrine (Iambic Hexameter) 252 B.—The Septenary 259 C.—The "Poulter's Measure" 265 IV. The Sonnet 267 A.—The Regular (Italian) Sonnet 270 B.—The English (Shaksperian) Sonnet 290 V. The Ode 298 A.—Regular Pindaric 299 B.—Irregular (Cowleyan) 307 C.—Choral 323 VI. Imitations of Classical Metres 330 A.—Lyrical Measures 331 B.—Dactylic Hexameter 340 VII.