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

accented syllables Æneid Alexandrine Amphibrach anapestic arrangement Ballad beauty bells blank verse Browning Burns Byron called combination Comedy composition consonants couplet Dactylic dark doth drama dreams Dryden elision English poetry English verse examples eyes feet flowers foot Francis Mahony heart heaven Heptameter heroic hexameter hiatus honour iambic iambic pentameter kind language licences light Longfellow lyric measure melody metre metrical Milton modern poets MONOMETER monosyllables muse night Normal line o'er Obsolete Octameter open vowels Paradise Lost pause pentameter pleasure plurals of nouns poems poetic Pope preterites of verbs prose quantity Queen rhymes rhythm rhythmic says sestet Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley short sigh singular of verbs sleep song sonnet soul sound species specimens speech Spenser Spondee stanza sweet syllables Tennyson tercet thee thou thought tongue trochaic trochee unaccented syllables variety versification voice vowel wind words writers youth