A HANDBOOK

OF

MODERN ENGLISH METRE

London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS,

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE.

Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET.

Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS.
New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

[All Rights reserved.]

OF

MODERN ENGLISH METRE

by

JOSEPH B. MAYOR

Hon. Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
Hon. Litt.D. of Dublin

LIBRARY"

OF THE

UNIVERSITY

OF

CALIFORNIA

Cambridge

at the University Press

1903