Joan Stansbury

English Versification

• Introduction: Why Another Book on Versification?

1. Verse and Poetry: Definition of Terms
2. What is Verse?
3. English Metre: Stress
4. Feet and Lines
5. Verse Rhythms
6. Syllable Length
7. Effects of Varying Syllable Length
8. Pre-Twentieth-Century Poems
9. Syncopation
10. Dramatic Verse
11. The Sonnet
12. Anglo-Saxon Verse
13. Medieval Verse
14. Gerard Manley Hopkins
15. Free Verse
16. Conclusion - the Sounds of Verse
    
17. Appendix 1 - Worked Examples

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