Timothy Steele's books include Toward the Winter Solstice, a collection of poems published by Ohio University Press. Among Steele's honors are a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University; a Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught literature and writing for twenty-five years.

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Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction
Part One: Iambic Verse
1
Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation
2
Scansion and Metrical Variation
. Principles of Scansion
. The Principal Iambic Meters
. The Three Common Metrical Variations in Iambic Verse: The Trochaic Substitution
in the First Foot, the Mid-line Trochaic Substitution, and the Feminine Ending
. Less Common Trochaic Substitutions and Trochees That Maybe Are Not Trochees
. Loose Iambic—Iambic Verse with Anapestic Substitutions
. Other Variants: Divided Lines, Clipped Lines, Broken-Backed Lines,
and Feminine Caesuras
3
Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment,
Caesural Pause, and Word Length
4
The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign,
and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe
. The Practice and Conventions of Elision
. Elision and Changing Views about Syllable Count
. How Real Is Elision? And What Are We, Finally, to Think of It?
5
Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store:Meter and Grammar
Part Two: Other Matters, Other Meters
6
Rhyme
. The Background and History of Rhyme
. The Two Common Types of Rhyme in English—
Full and Partial—and Some of Their Varieties

. The Use of Rhyme
Seven
Stanzas
8
Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters
9
Alternative Modes of Versification in English
. Accentual Verse
. Syllabic Verse
. Free Verse
. Imitation-Classical Verse
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Permissions and Copyrights
Index