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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 16th February 1885, Edition 1 of 1, Page 162

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      -.: I Now ready , crown 8 vo . cloth , price 3 s . 1 ON THE STRUCTURE OF ! ENGLISH VERSE . j '¦ " ' BY J I O . "W T O O IMI IB , Maitre de Conferences Honoraire a L'Eeole Normale Sup 4 rieure ; Professeur Honoraire au College Rollin . PREFACE . The object of these pages is to assist the student in his endeavours ! to obtain a knowledge of the mechanism of English verse and of the variety of forms into which it may be wrought . The explanations and remarks that follow will , it is hoped , serve to guide the reader \ through the not very narrow field of English poetry spread before him in the numerous passages quoted . These have been purposely multiplied ; they are not all mere fragments ; their number , and the length of many of them , may enable the reader to form some idea of the characteristics of the poets from whom they are borrowed , and to familiarise himself to a certain extent with the manner of each and with the peculiar harmony of his verse . CONTENTS . L Feet . VIII . Rhyme . II . Adaptation of Words to IX . Heroic Couplets . Metre . X . Stanzas . III . -Iambic Verse . XI . The Sonnet . IV . Trochaic Verse . XII . Blank Verse . V . Anapaestic Verse . XIII . Imitations of Classical VI . Dactylic Verse . Metres . VII . The Caesura . Bound in clotn , price THREE SHILLINGS . LONDON : - ' i SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEAELE , & EIVINGTON , ] 188 Meet Street , B , 0 . ^^""* - ^^ l I frl " " i' "' ii i ' ii . , i ii ii ¦ ii . , ,, . in i i . , ~ __

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 16, 1885, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16021885/page/26/