Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Founder Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Some Definitions And Distinctions -- Rhythm and metre -- Analysing a line of verse -- 2 Pure Stress Metres -- 3 Stress-Syllable Metres -- The iambic pentameter -- Iambic tetrameters, trimeters and longer iambic lines -- Trochaic, anapaestic, dactyllic and choriambic lines -- 4 Quantitative Metres And Pure Syllabic Metres -- Quantitative metres -- Pure syllabic metre -- 5 Rhyme -- 6 Free Verse -- Two Additional Notes -- Trager-Smith Scansion -- The Concept of Stress -- Select Bibliography -- Index