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English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and HistoryAlden, Raymond MacDonald

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English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Name: English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History
Author: Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Alden, Raymond MacDonald

English language -- Versification; English poetry

_Riming Poem_ (Anglo-Saxon), 125 f.*.

      ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER: _Chronicle_, 265.

      ROBERTSON, J. M., his theories of English verse, 24 n., 392-394, 400,
          403.

      _Robin Hood_ (ballad), 70*, 263*.

      _Roland, Chanson de_, 113 f.*.

      Romance languages, assonance in, 113.

      Romance metres, regular time-intervals in, 12, 14 n.

      Rondeau, 368, 371-376.

      Rondel, 368-371.

      ROSSETTI: _Ballad of Dead Ladies_, 362 f.*;
        _Blessed Damozel_, 7*;
        _House of Life_, 284*, 285*;
        _Love's Nocturn_, 146*;
        _My Sister's Sleep_, 75*;
        on Drayton's sonnet, 293;
        _Penumbra_, 135*;
        _Rose Mary_, 91*;
        _Sister Helen_, 80*;
        sonnets of, 285;
        _Sunset Wings_, 89*;
        _To Death_ (rondeau), 374*;
        _Willowwood_, 9*.

      Roundel, in Chaucer, 369;
        Swinburne's form of, 376.

      ROWLANDS, S., verse of, 190.

      "Run-on" lines, 19 (see also _Enjambement_).

      RUSSELL, T., sonnets of, 277.


      SACKVILLE:  _Mirror for Magistrates_, 94.

      SACKVILLE (and NORTON): _Gorboduc_, 217*.

      SAINTSBURY, on alexandrine, 258 f.;
        on Blair, 237;
        on Dryden's couplet, 194 f.;
        on Dryden's dactyls, 40;
        on heroic stanza, 73;
        on Shenstone, 35 f.;
        on Thomson, 238.

      SANDYS, G., heroic couplets of, 189 f., 191;
        influence on Pope's verse, 201;
        _Metamorphoses_, 191*;
        _Paraphrase of Luke_, 63*.

      Satire, heroic couplet in, 181, 182, 183, 206.

      _Satire on People of Kildare_, 91*.

      Scandinavian  verse, influence in England, 126.

      SCHELLING, F. E., on Campion's classical metres, 335 f.;
        on influence of Jonson's verse, 186;
        on Raleigh's anapests, 35.

      SCHILLER, elegiac distich of, 346;
        on rhythm in the drama, 433.

      SCHIPPER, on accent, 3;
        on Anglo-Saxon alliteration, 117;
        on early imitation of classical verse, 330 f.;
        on Layamon, 119;
        on the octosyllabic couplet, 161;
        on Poulter's Measure, 265;
        on rime, 123-125;
        on rime in Cynewulf, 126 n.;
        on rime royal, 94;
        on _Riming Poem_, 126;
        on Romance stanza-forms, 110 f.;
        on the sonnet, 270;
        on the stanza, 62;
        on tumbling verse, 158 n.;
        on types of alexandrine, 255;
        on "unaccented rime," 121 n.

      SCHLEGEL., A. W., on tone-color, 137.

      SCHRÖER, on early blank verse, 218.

      SCOLLARD, C.: _Villanelle_, 380*.

      SCOTT, W.: _Hunting Song_, 13*;
        _Lady of the Lake_, 29*, 172*.
        _Scottish Field_ (ballad), 120 f.*.

      Scottish verse, alliteration in, 120.

      _Sdruciolla_, 215.

      SEAMAN, O.: _Battle of the Bays_, 329 n.*.

      Septenary, 259-264;
        in drama, 218;
        internal rime in, 132;
        mingled with alexandrine, 252, 253 f., 261, 265;
        unrimed, 260, 262.

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English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and HistoryAlden, Raymond MacDonald

General

English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Alden, Raymond MacDonald

English language -- Versification; English poetry

_Riming Poem_ (Anglo-Saxon), 125 f.*.

      ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER: _Chronicle_, 265.

      ROBERTSON, J. M., his theories of English verse, 24 n., 392-394, 400,
          403.

      _Robin Hood_ (ballad), 70*, 263*.

      _Roland, Chanson de_, 113 f.*.

      Romance languages, assonance in, 113.

      Romance metres, regular time-intervals in, 12, 14 n.

      Rondeau, 368, 371-376.

      Rondel, 368-371.

      ROSSETTI: _Ballad of Dead Ladies_, 362 f.*;
        _Blessed Damozel_, 7*;
        _House of Life_, 284*, 285*;
        _Love's Nocturn_, 146*;
        _My Sister's Sleep_, 75*;
        on Drayton's sonnet, 293;
        _Penumbra_, 135*;
        _Rose Mary_, 91*;
        _Sister Helen_, 80*;
        sonnets of, 285;
        _Sunset Wings_, 89*;
        _To Death_ (rondeau), 374*;
        _Willowwood_, 9*.

      Roundel, in Chaucer, 369;
        Swinburne's form of, 376.

      ROWLANDS, S., verse of, 190.

      "Run-on" lines, 19 (see also _Enjambement_).

      RUSSELL, T., sonnets of, 277.


      SACKVILLE:  _Mirror for Magistrates_, 94.

      SACKVILLE (and NORTON): _Gorboduc_, 217*.

      SAINTSBURY, on alexandrine, 258 f.;
        on Blair, 237;
        on Dryden's couplet, 194 f.;
        on Dryden's dactyls, 40;
        on heroic stanza, 73;
        on Shenstone, 35 f.;
        on Thomson, 238.

      SANDYS, G., heroic couplets of, 189 f., 191;
        influence on Pope's verse, 201;
        _Metamorphoses_, 191*;
        _Paraphrase of Luke_, 63*.

      Satire, heroic couplet in, 181, 182, 183, 206.

      _Satire on People of Kildare_, 91*.

      Scandinavian  verse, influence in England, 126.

      SCHELLING, F. E., on Campion's classical metres, 335 f.;
        on influence of Jonson's verse, 186;
        on Raleigh's anapests, 35.

      SCHILLER, elegiac distich of, 346;
        on rhythm in the drama, 433.

      SCHIPPER, on accent, 3;
        on Anglo-Saxon alliteration, 117;
        on early imitation of classical verse, 330 f.;
        on Layamon, 119;
        on the octosyllabic couplet, 161;
        on Poulter's Measure, 265;
        on rime, 123-125;
        on rime in Cynewulf, 126 n.;
        on rime royal, 94;
        on _Riming Poem_, 126;
        on Romance stanza-forms, 110 f.;
        on the sonnet, 270;
        on the stanza, 62;
        on tumbling verse, 158 n.;
        on types of alexandrine, 255;
        on "unaccented rime," 121 n.

      SCHLEGEL., A. W., on tone-color, 137.

      SCHRÖER, on early blank verse, 218.

      SCOLLARD, C.: _Villanelle_, 380*.

      SCOTT, W.: _Hunting Song_, 13*;
        _Lady of the Lake_, 29*, 172*.
        _Scottish Field_ (ballad), 120 f.*.

      Scottish verse, alliteration in, 120.

      _Sdruciolla_, 215.

      SEAMAN, O.: _Battle of the Bays_, 329 n.*.

      Septenary, 259-264;
        in drama, 218;
        internal rime in, 132;
        mingled with alexandrine, 252, 253 f., 261, 265;
        unrimed, 260, 262.

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