CHAPTER IX

LINES OF EIGHT FEET, FOUR FEET, TWO FEET, AND ONE FOOT

§ 125. The eight-foot line and its resolution into four-foot lines 183 126. Examples of the four-foot line 183 127. Treatment of the caesura in four-foot verse 185 128. Treatment of four-foot verse in North English and Scottish writings 186 129. Its treatment in the Midlands and the South 187 130. Combinations of four-foot and three-foot verse in Middle English 188 131-2. Freer variety of this metre in Modern English 188 133. Two-foot verse 190 134. One-foot verse 191