VIII. Chief Metrical Forms: Part I

Date Heroic Couplet Octosyllabic Couplet Ballad Meter Blank Verse

Chaucer (d. 1400) Chaucer Numerous ballads

Sir Patrick Spens

1500 Chevy Chace

Surrey

Spenser Spenser Marlowe

1600 Shakespeare

Wither P. Fletcher Jonson

Cowley Milton

Cooper’s Hill

Milton

Dryden Butler

Dryden

1700

Pope Swift

Thomson

Percy

Johnson

Chatterton

Goldsmith Goldsmith Cowper

1800 Coleridge Coleridge Wordsworth

Keats Scott Scott Keats

Byron Byron Shelley

Tennyson

Arnold Tennyson

W. Morris W. Morris D. G. Rossetti Browning

Arnold

1900 Swinburne Swinburne