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 III.—_Of the Several Sorts of Poems, or Composition in

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Verse._

SECT. 1. Of the Poems composed in Couplets. 227

SECT. 2. Of the Poems composed in Stanzas; and, first, of the Stanzas consisting of Three, and of Four Verses. 228

SECT. 3. Of the Stanzas of Six Verses. 230

SECT. 4. Of the Stanzas of Eight Verses. 231

SECT. 5. Of the Stanzas of Ten and of Twelve Verses. 233

SECT. 6. Of the Stanzas that consist of an odd Number of Verses. 234

SECT. 7. Of Pindaric Odes, and Poems in Blank Verse. 236