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II. Pentameter Verses.

Number of poems in which the verse is used.

(1) Pentameter couplet; iambic foot...

44

(2) Pentameter couplet; iambic and dactylic feet (Poem 1) (3) Pentameter quatrain: last two lines being a couplet; iambic foot; rhyming couplets (Poem 138)....

1

1

(4) Pentameter stanza of fourteen lines; iambic foot; rhyming a bab cdcdefe f g g (Poem 112) .

1

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Total number of poems in which pentameter verses are used exclusively

47

Total number of poems in which the iambic foot is used exclusively

..46

Number of poems in which the iambic and dactylic feet are used exclusively....

1

III. Combination of Tetrameter and Pentameter Lines.

(1) Tetrameter couplet, poem ending with pentameter couplet; iambic foot (Poem 5)..

1 (2) Tetrameter stanza of six lines, the last line of each stanza being a pentameter; iambic foot; rhymin a babcc as in (12) (Poem 31)

1 (3) Tetrameter stanza of six lines, the last six-line stanza ending in a pentameter couplet, this being followed by a pentameter couplet with which the poem ends (Poem 134)

(4) Six iambic pentameter couplets, followed by twelve trochaic tetrameter couplets, and followed again by two iambic pentameter couplets (Poem 85)...

1

1

Total number of poems in which tetrameter and pentameter verses are used exclusively.....

4

Number of poems in which the iambic foot is used exclusively in the above...

3

Number of poems in which the iambic and trochaic feet are used exclusively in the above....

1

IV. Miscellaneous Verses.

In the poems that belong to this class the meter will be indicated by numerals, and the rhyme, except when the couplet is used, will be indicated by the letters of the alphabet. These poems are taken up in the order in which they occur in Hazlitt's edition of Carew. The iambic foot is used almost entirely in these poems.

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Meter: 4 2 4 2 4 2 2 4 4

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4 2 4 2 2 2 4 4

(8) Poems 55, 101, 118, 121, and part of Coelum Britannicum:

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Rhyme: a a bec

Meter: 4 4 4 4 2

Note the close resemblance between (15) and (16).

(17) Poem 129:

Rhyme: a a beeb

Meter: 4 4 3 4 4 3

Note that a dactylic foot introduces the trimeters, and that each stanza is followed by a tercet, the lines of which rhyme.

(18) Poem 131:

Rhyme: Couplets

Meter: 5 3 5 2 5 5 3 5

(19) Poem 136:

Rhyme: a babe c

Meter: 4 2 4 244

Note the resemblance to I, (12).

(20) Poem 139:

It seems impossible to reduce this poem to any scheme. The poem is found only in Hazlitt's edition, and is thought by some critics not to be Carew's

(21) Poem 141:

Rhyme: a a bbc

Meter: 5 4 1 2 3

(22) Poem 142: Epigram

Rhyme: Without rhyme

Meter: One hexameter followed by a pentameter line.

(23) Coelum Britannicum:

Rhyme: Blank Verse

Meter: Iambic Pentameter.

Other verse forms in the Coelum Britannicum have already been mentioned.

APPENDIX B.

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The following is an estimate, made from twenty of his poems taken at random, of the proportion of run-on lines in Carew's poetry:

Number of run-
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The following table will show Carew's use of the feminine rhyme:

Poem in Hazlitt's Number of times the

feminine rhyme

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APPENDIX D.

The following is a list of all the faulty rhymes which are found in Carew. In numbering the poems I have had in mind the Hazlitt edition. The spelling found in the Hazlitt edition of Carew has also been adopted.

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