Orthometry: The Art of Versification and the Technicalities of Poetry, with a New and Complete Rhyming Dictionary

accented syllables Alexandrine Amphibrach anapestic arrangement Ballad beauty blank verse Browning Byron called combination composition consonants couplet Dactylic dark delight doth double rhymes dramatic dreams Dryden elisions English poetry English verse examples eyes feet flowers foot hath heart heaven heroic verse hexameter hiatus honour iambic iambic pentameter instance kind King language licences light Longfellow Love's Love's Labour's Lost lyric maid measure melody metre metrical Milton modern poets monosyllables muse night Normal line nouns o'er open vowels Paradise Lost pause pleasure poems poetic poetry Pope preterites preterites of verbs prose pyrrhic Queen rhythm rhythmic says sestet Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley short sigh sleep song sonnet soul sound specimens speech Spenser spondee stanza sweet syllables Tennyson tercet thee thou thought thunder tongue trochaic trochee unaccented syllables variety versification voice vowel wind Winter's Tale words writers youth