58. Growing influence of verse formed on foreign models 97 59. Lyrical stanzas: four-beat and two-beat lines 97 60. Forms of structure and versification 99 61. Narrative verse 101 62. Relation between rhyme and alliteration 101 63. Features of alliterative-rhyming lines 105 64. Structures of the _cauda_ 105 65. Two-beat lines in tail-rhyme stanzas 106 66. Rhyming alliterative lines in Mystery Plays 108 67. Alliteration in Moralities and Interludes 109 68. Four-beat scansion of Bale's verses 110 69. Examples of the presence or absence of anacrusis in the two hemistichs 110 70. Entire tail-rhyme stanzas 113 71. Irregular tail-rhyme stanzas: Skeltonic verse 114 C. REVIVAL OF THE FOUR-BEAT ALLITERATIVE VERSE IN THE MODERN ENGLISH PERIOD. 72. Examples from Gascoigne, Wyatt, Spenser, &c. 117 73. Attempted modern revival of the old four-beat alliterative line without rhyme 119 74. Examples of the development of the four-beat alliterative line in reversed chronological order 120 75. Summing-up of the evidence 124 =PART II. FOREIGN METRES= DIVISION I. THE FOREIGN METRES IN GENERAL CHAPTER V INTRODUCTION § 76. Influence of French and Low Latin metres 126 77. The different kinds of line 127 78. The breaking up of long lines 128 79. Heroic verse; tail-rhyme staves 131 80. Different kinds of caesura 131 81. Causes of variation in the structure of metres of equal measures 133 CHAPTER VI VERSE-RHYTHM