§ 111. Rhythmical Structure of Brut: a) Schipper.

§ 112. b) Trautmann.

§ 113. c) Luick.

§ 114. Lagamon's Verse has four Members

§ 115. Proverbs of Alfred.

§ 116. King Horn

§ 117. Rhythmical Structure of King Horn .

§ 118. Views of Wissmann, Luick and Schipper.

144

146

146

148

§ 119. Regular Short Rimed Couplet: a) Latin Hymn

Verse

§ 120. b) The French Verse of Eight Syllables

§ 121. The ME. Short Rimed Couplet

§ 123. Difference between Verse of four Bars and Verse

of four Members

149

§ 124. Difference between ME. Short Rimed Couplet

and Latin and French Verse of Eight Syllables 150

§ 125. The Short Rimed Couplet of Genesis and Exodus 151

§ 126. The Septenary Rimed Couplet.

§ 134. Interchange of various Kinds of Verse.

§ 13. Stanza Formation.

§ 136. Rime: a) Masculine Rime

§ 137. b) Feminine Rime

§ 138. c) Gliding Rime.

§ 139. Broken Rime

§ 140. Rime of Unstressed and weakly Stressed Syllables 171

146. Different kinds of Identical Rime

§ 147. Identical Rime (cont.).

§ 148. Double Rime.

b) The Central ME. Period (1250—1370).

§ 151. Development of Prosody in the Central

Period.

§ 152. The Short Rimed Couplet.

§ 153. Septenaries in Rimed Couplets

§ 154. Verses with one, two and three Bars

189

191

§ 155. The Alexandrine

§ 156. The ME. Alliterative Verse

§ 157. Views concerning ME. Alliterative Verse: a) Skeat

§ 158. b) Rosenthal, Trautmann etc., Kuhnke, Bunzen. 195

§ 159. Rhythmical Structure of ME. Alliterative Verse. 199

§ 160. Alliteration in ME.

§ 161. Stanza Structure

203

§ 166. Unrimed Stanzas

§ 167. The Rimed Couplet.

§ 168. Four-line Stanza aabb

§ 173. Twelve-line Stanzas ababababbcbc,ababababcdcd 219

§ 174. The Tristrem Stanza ababababybc.

§ 175. Thirteen-line Stanza ababababydddc.

§ 176. Tail-rime Stanza

§ 177. Six-line Tail-rime Stanza

221

223

225

225

228

230

232

§ 178. Twelve-line Tail-rime Stanza

§ 179. Eight-line and Sixteen-line Tail-rime Stanzas.

§ 180. Octovian Stanza: a aabab.

§ 181. Development of Prosody in late ME..

§ 182. Chaucer's Short Rimed Couplet

§ 183. Rime-breaking and Enjambement

§ 184. Sir Thopas. .

§ 185. Gower's, Barbour's and Lydgate's Short Rimed

Couplet

.

§ 186. Heroic Verse

§ 189. Rhythmical Structure of Chaucer's Heroic Verse 246

§ 190. Word-stress in Chaucer's Heroic Verse.

§ 193. Chaucer's use of Rime and Alliteration

§ 194. Chaucer's Seven-line Stanza.

§ 195. Chaucer's Eight-line Stanza

§ 196. Hoccleve.

§ 197. Lydgate

§ 198. Scotch Poets

§ 199. Septenary and Alliterative Verse.

§ 200. Stanza Construction.

Section III.

Modern English Period.

201. Development of Prosody in NE..

252

§ 192. Enjambement and Rime-breaking in Heroic Verse 254

256

256

258

259

260

261

§ 202. Influence of Linguistic Alterations on the Regu-

larity of NE. Verse.

§ 203. Generally Masculine Verse-ending

§ 204. Rising and Falling Rhythm.

267

269

270

§ 205. Influence of Foreign Models on NE. Verse. . 271

§ 206. Word-stress and Verse-stress. Inverted Accent.

§ 212. The Alexandrine

§ 213. Heroic Verse

214. Four-bar and Four-beat Verses

§ 215. Verses of one, two and three Bars

§ 217. Shakespeare's Blank Verse.

§ 218. Dramatic Blank Verse before and after Shake-

speare

§ 219. Milton's Blank Verse

284

285

287

288

€ 296

301

302

§ 220. Blank Verse in XVIII and XIX Centuries

§ 221. Trochaic Verse

§ 222. Anapaestic Verse

§ 223. Dactylic Verse

§ 224. The Hexameter

§ 225. Walt Whitman

§ 226. NE. Stanzas.

§ 232. Stanzas of Eight and Twelve Lines

§ 233. The Tail-rime Stanza.

$234. Variations of the Tail-rime Stanza.

§ 235. Burns' Stanza.

§ 236. Venus and Adonis Stanza.

§ 237. Seven-line Chaucerian Stanza § 238. Chaucer's eight-line Stanza

§ 239. Spenserian Stanza. .

§ 240. Variations of the Spenserian Stanza

§ 241. Epithalamion Stanza

§ 242. Regular Pindaric Odes

§ 243. Freer Pindaric Odes

§ 244. Stanzas without Rime.

§ 245. Imitations of Latin Metres

§ 246. Terza Rima

§ 247. Ottava Rima

.

§ 248. The Sonnet in the XVI and XVII Centuries. . 379

§ 249. The Sonnet in the XIX Century

§ 250. French Stanzas

Indexes

384 386 388

OHG. =

Old High German.

MHG. = Middle High German.

NHG. New (Modern) High German.

Gesch. d. engl. Lit. Geschichte der englischen Literatur. Zfuglsprachf. = Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachfor

schung.

ZfdA. = Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum