ARNOLD, M.: _East London_, 286*; _Empedocles on Ætna_, 325-327*; _Forsaken Merman_, 5*, 22 f.*, 53 f.*; _Future_, 115*; on Chapman's septenary, 262; on English hexameters, 351-353; on Longfellow's hexameters, 348; _Sohrab and Rustum_, 58*, 249 f.*. ARNAUT, the troubadour, sestina of, 383. "Ascending rhythm," 24. ASCHAM: _Schoolmaster_, 330, 341. Asclepiadean verse, 331. Assonance, 113-115; in Celtic verse, 115; in verse of Romance languages, 113 f. ATTERBURY, on Dryden's influence, 197; on Waller, 188 f. _Aurora lucis rutilat_, 160*. BACON, F., on significant sounds, 136. BAÏF, DE, A., classical metre of, 331. Ballade, 360-367. Ballads, stanza of, 70, 264; verse of, 10, 157. BANVILLE, DE, T., 358, 359. BARBOUR: _Bruce_, 162 f*. BARCLAY: _Ship of Fooles_, 94. BARNES: _Parthenophil_, 273. _Baston_, 83. BEAUMONT, F.: _Knight of the Burning Pestle_, 263*. BEAUMONT, J., on heroic couplet, 190 f.; verse of, 191 n. BEERS, on heroic stanza, 73. BENTLEY, on Milton's verse, 58. _Beowulf_, 13*. BERNARD (ST.): _De Nativitate Domini_, 80*. BERNART, DE VENTADORN, 110. BEST, J. R.: _Bon Rondeau_, 373*. _Bestiary_, 118*. _Bewick and Grahame_ (ballad), 157*. BLAIR: _Grave_, 236 f.*. Blank verse, 213-251; abandoned in Restoration drama, 196-199; early use of term, 215; in lyrical poems, 246; its decadence, 230, 234; revival in 18th century, 238; unpopular in 18th century, 204 f. _Blow, northern wind_, 78*. Bob-wheel, 110 n. BÖDDEKER: _Altenglische Dichtungen_, cited, 14, 69, 78, 84, 86, 110, 111, 175. BOLTON, T. L., on nature of rhythm, 393 n. BOWLES, W. L.: _Sonnet_, 277*; sonnets of, 278. BRIGHT, J. W., on "pitch-accent," 5 f.; theory of metrical accent, 401 n. BROME, R., blank verse of, 230. BRONSON, on Greek and English ode, 300; on odes of Collins, 305. BROWNING, E. B.: _Cowper's Grave_, 264*; _Rhyme of the Duchess May_, 80*; _Sonnets from the Portuguese_, 283*; sonnets of, 284.