CHAPTER XI

THE RHYMED FIVE-FOOT VERSE

§ 151. Rhymed five-foot verse in Middle English 209 152. Sixteen types of five-foot verse 210 153. Earliest specimens of this metre 212 154. Chaucer's five-foot verse; treatment of the caesura 213 155. Masculine and feminine endings; rhythmic licences 214 156. Gower's five-foot verse; its decline 215 157. Rhymed five-foot verse in Modern English 216 158. Its use in narrative poetry and by Shakespeare 217 159. The heroic verse of Dryden, Pope, and later writers 218

DIVISION III. VERSE-FORMS OCCURRING IN MODERN ENGLISH POETRY ONLY