VIII. CHIEF METRICAL FORMS: PART I

DateHeroic Couplet[243][244]Octosyllabic CoupletBallad MeterBlank Verse
Chaucer (d. 1400)[243][244]ChaucerNumerous ballads
Sir Patrick Spens
1500Chevy Chace
Surrey
Spenser[244]SpenserMarlowe
1600Shakespeare
Wither[243]P. FletcherJonson
Cowley[243]Milton
Cooper’s Hill[243]
Milton
Dryden[243]Butler
Dryden
1700
Pope[243]Swift
Thomson
Percy
Johnson[243]
Chatterton
Goldsmith[243]GoldsmithCowper
1800ColeridgeColeridgeWordsworth
Keats[244]ScottScottKeats
Byron[243]ByronShelley
Tennyson
Arnold[244]Tennyson
W. Morris[244]W. MorrisD. G. RossettiBrowning
Arnold
1900Swinburne[244]Swinburne