1. The History and Scope of English Poetry -- 2. Where Music and Poetry Divide -- 3. The Training of the Poet -- 4. The Sense of Form -- 5. The Iambic Pentameter -- 6. Variations in the Line -- 7. Patterns of Stress -- 8. Mysteries of the Trochee -- 9. The Genius of the Trochee -- 10. The Shorter Lines -- 11. The Iambic Tetrameter -- 12. The Longer Lines -- 13. The Shorter Stanza -- 14. The Longer Stanza -- 15. The Sonnet -- 16. Minor Forms -- 17. Rhyme -- 18. Syllabics -- 19. Free Verse -- 20. Writing for the Eye -- 21. Song -- 22. Poetic Drama and Opera
