Chapter 21

I have not attempted in this chapter to give elaborate illustrations of the varieties of rhyme and stanza in English poetry. Full illustrations will be found in Alden's _English Verse_. A clear statement of the fundamental principles involved is given in W. H. Carruth's _Verse Writing_.

Free verse is suggestively discussed by Lowes, _Convention and Revolt_, chapters 6 and 7, and by Andrews, _Writing and Reading of Verse_, chapters 5 and 19. Miss Amy Lowell has written fully about it in the Prefaces to _Sword Blades and Poppy Seed_ and _Can Grande's Castle_, in the final chapter of _Tendencies in Modern American Poetry_, in the Prefaces to _Some Imagist Poets_, and in the _North American Review_ for January, 1917. Mr. Braithwaite's annual _Anthologies of American Verse_ give a full bibliography of special articles upon this topic.

An interesting classroom test of the difference between prose rhythm and verse rhythm with strongly marked metre and rhyme may be found in comparing Emerson's original prose draft of his "Two Rivers," as found in