§ 173. The further development of blank verse can be dealt with here only very briefly.
For the dramatic blank verse of Shakespeare’s contemporaries and immediate successors see Metrik, vol. ii, §§ 167–78, and the works there enumerated. The reader may also be referred to various special treatises[164] of later date, which supply detailed evidence in the main confirming the correctness of the author’s former observations.
In this place we mention only the characteristic peculiarities of the most important poets of that group.
Ben Jonson’s blank verse is not so melodious as that of Shakespeare.
There is often a conflict between the logical and the rhythmical stress, as e.g.:
Be éver cáll’d | the fóuntayne óf selfe-lóve. Cynthia’s Rev. I. ii.
Theses of two and even more syllables likewise occur in many verses, e.g.:
Sir Péter Túb was his fáther, | a saltpétre mán.
Tale of a Tub, I. 22;