CHAPTER IV

ONE-RHYMED INDIVISIBLE AND BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED STANZAS

I. ONE-RHYMED AND INDIVISIBLE STANZAS.

§ 251. Three-lined stanzas of one rhyme 305 252. Four-lined stanzas of one rhyme 306 253. Other stanzas connected with the above 307

II. BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED ISOMETRICAL STANZAS.

254. Four-lined stanzas 308 255. Five-lined stanzas 308 256. Four-lined stanzas of one rhyme extended by the addition of a couplet 310

III. BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED ANISOMETRICAL STANZAS.

§ 257-8. Four-lined stanzas; Poulter's measure and other stanzas 311 259. Five-lined stanzas 314 260. Shortened tail-rhyme stanzas 316 261. Six-lined stanzas 317 262. Seven-lined stanzas 319 263. Eight-, nine-, and ten-lined stanzas 320 264. The bob-wheel stanzas in the Middle English period 321 265. Bob-wheel stanzas of four-stressed rhyming verses 322 266. Modern English bob-wheel stanzas 323