A Study of English Rhyme

accent alliteration alliterative alliterative verse Anglo-Saxon anti-rhymers appear assonance ballads beauty beginning Beowulf blank verse caesura called century Chaucer classical consonants Dante Dryden's effect Elizabethan end-rhyme England English poetry English rhyme English verse feminine rhymes freedom French German give Greek harmony hath heroic couplet hexameter history of English hymns iambic iambic pentameter Icelandic identical influence internal rhyme Italian Keats language Latin letter literature lyric masculine rhyme measure mediæval melodious metre modern natural never original Ormulum pentameter perfect rhyme pleasure Poe's poem poesy poetic poets pronunciation prose prosody Provençal Psalms Puttenham quantity reader refrain rhyme-words rhythm rhythmical romantic ryme says Scyld sense Shakespeare similar sing sometimes song sonnet sound Spanish speech Spenser stanza stress strophes sweet Swinburne Swinburne's syllables Tennyson's Teutonic thee thing thou thought tion tongue translation trochaic trochee unrhymed utterance vowels words writer