In the following table the figures regarding the couplets of Spenser are based on his _Mother Hubbard's Tale_; those relating to Joseph Hall, on the Satires of his _Virgidemiarum_ (see p. 182); those relating to Leigh Hunt, on _The Story of Rimini_; those relating to Keats, on _Endymion_; to Browning, on _Sordello_. ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- | Chaucer | |Joseph | | | (ab. |Spenser | Hall |Jonson |Waller | 1385) |(1591) |(1597) |(1616) |(ab. 1650) ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- Run-on | | | | | Lines | 16 | 14 | 10 | 26 | 16 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- Run-on | | | | | Couplets | 7 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- Medial | | | | | Cesura | 33 | 31 | 37 | 48 | 50 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- No | | | | | Cesura | 58 | 64 | 58 | 29 | 42 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- Variant | | | | | Cesura | 9 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 8 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- Feminine | | | | | Endings | 64 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- [a] | | | | | Trochees | 15 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 23 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- [a] | | | | | Pyrrhics | 26 | 29 | 24 | 35 | 46 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- [a] | | | | | Spondees | 0 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 14 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+----------- [a] | | | | | Anapests | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 ---------+----------+--------+---------+--------+-----------