RULES

For making

ENGLISH VERSE.


In the English Versification there are two Things chiefly to be consider'd;

1. The Verses.
2. The several Sorts of Poems, or Compositions in Verse.

But because in the Verses there are also two Things to be observ'd; The Structure of the Verse; and the Rhyme; this Treatise shall be divided into three Chapters.

I. Of the Structure of English Verses.
II. Of Rhyme.
III. Of the several Sorts of Poems, or Compositions in Verse.


CHAP. I.