Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

CHAPTER I.—_Of the Structure of English Verses.

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SECT. 1. Of the several Sorts of Verses; and, first, of those of Ten Syllables: of the due Observation of the Accents, and of the Pause. 209

SECT. 2. Of the other Sorts of Verses that are used in our Poetry. 213

SECT. 3. Several Rules conducing to the Beauty of our Versification. 215

SECT. 4. Doubts concerning the number of Syllables of certain Words. 217

SECT. 5. Of the Elisions that are allowed in our Versification. 219