[61] This combination (of pyrrhic and spondee) is of course very frequent; and where both substitutions occur together, the general average of accents is maintained, only with exchange of position. On the other hand, where there appears a large number of pyrrhics with almost no spondees (as in the case of Dryden), a different sort of verse is indicated,--one where the lines gain a certain lightness and rapidity from the lack of the full number of fully accented syllables. [62] "Divination by Statistics," in the _Atlantic Monthly_, January, 1902. INDEX _Names of poems are arranged alphabetically under authors. An asterisk in connection with the page number indicates that the poem is quoted at least in part._ _Abraham and Isaac_ (Mystery Play), 112*. Accents, arbitrary variation of, 400; conflict of, 7-11; deficiency in, 55,56; degrees of, 3-5; excess of 55, 57; hovering, 9-11; inversion of, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.; kinds of, 3, 6; relation of different kinds, 7; relation to quantity, 405 f.; secondary, 3, 5, 156, 409; time-intervals of, 11, 393-396; wrenched, 8-11. ADDISON: _Campaign_, 199*; _Cato_, 236*; on verse of Butler, 167 f. ÆLFRIC, verse of, 116 f. AKENSIDE: _Pleasures of the Imagination_, 238; _Virtuoso_, 104. ALAMANNI, influence on Wyatt, 65. ALBERTI, classical metres of, 330. Alcaic stanza, 77. Alexandrine, 252-259; developed by Browning, 258; French, 18; in five-stress verse, 195, 208, 258; in sonnet, 272 f.; in Spenserian stanza, 103; unrimed, 255; used at end of stanzas other than Spenserian, 107. Alliteration, 113, 116-121; in mediæval Latin, 117; sporadic, 135. "Alliterative long line," 119, 156. ALSCHER, on Wyatt, 11. Anacrusis, 25. Anapest, 24; substituted for iambus, 58 f. Anapestic verse, two-stress, 28 f.; three-stress, 34-36; four-stress, 39 f.; five-stress, 42; six-stress, 43; seven-stress, 45; eight-stress, 48; in _vers de société_, 39. ANDERSON, M. B.: _Inferno_, 68 f.*. ANDERSON, R., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182. Anglo-Saxon verse, alliteration in, 116 f.; relation of accent and quantity in, 405 f.; rime in, 124, 125 f.; stanzas in, 62 n.; two theories of, 151-154; types of, 152 f. ARCHER, W., on Watson's sonnets, 290. Areopagus, 332 f. ARISTOPHANES, Swinburne on verse of, 45 f. ARISTOTLE, his theory of metre, 413-416.