Part I: The simpler and more familiar forms of verse -- 1. The heroic hexameter -- 2. The collocation of words in epic verse (elision, hiatus etc) -- 3. The elegiac couplet -- 4. Anapaests -- 5. Iambic verse -- 6. The scazon or choliambus -- 7. The trochaic
tetrameter and septenarius -- 8. Hendecasyllabics or phalaecei -- Part II: -- 1. Greek lyric verse -- 2. The history of metre at Rome -- 3. Lyric metres of Horace.
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