114. Alleged difference in degree of stress among inflexional endings containing _e_ 172 115. Accent in trisyllables and compounds 174 116. Pronunciation of parathetic compounds 175 117. Rhythmical treatment of trisyllables and words of four syllables 175 _B. Romanic words._ 118. Disyllabic words 177 119. Trisyllabic words 178 120. Words of four and five syllables 179 II. WORD-ACCENT IN MODERN ENGLISH. 121. Romanic accentuation still continued 180 122. Disyllabic words 181 123. Trisyllabic and polysyllabic words 181 124. Parathetic compounds 182 DIVISION II. VERSE-FORMS COMMON TO THE MIDDLE AND MODERN ENGLISH PERIODS CHAPTER IX LINES OF EIGHT FEET, FOUR FEET, TWO FEET, AND ONE FOOT § 125. The eight-foot line and its resolution into four-foot lines 183 126. Examples of the four-foot line 183 127. Treatment of the caesura in four-foot verse 185 128. Treatment of four-foot verse in North English and Scottish writings 186 129. Its treatment in the Midlands and the South 187 130. Combinations of four-foot and three-foot verse in Middle English 188 131-2. Freer variety of this metre in Modern English 188 133. Two-foot verse 190 134. One-foot verse 191 CHAPTER X THE SEPTENARY, THE ALEXANDRINE, AND THE THREE-FOOT LINE