Excerpt from The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical
The technical or material part of versification (the art of rhythmical composition), like that of any other of the fine arts, is, capable of being reduced to rules and referred to fixed principles.
I wish the title of Laws of Verse, or Principles of Versification Exemplified, to be understood in the sense of an attempt to illustrate this proposition by examples. This is not a treatise on Prosody, neither is it a discourse de arte Poetica. Moreover I do not profess to lay down a systematic body of doctrine on the Art of Versification, but merely to indicate, in the way of cursory comment, chiefly contained in notes to the text, the existence of such a doctrine, and the possibility of moulding it into a certain definite organic form. In poetry we have sound, thought, and words (i. e. thought clothed in sound); accordingly the subject falls naturally into three great divisions, the cogitative, the expressional, and the technical; to which we may give the respective names of Pneumatic, Linguistic, and Rhythmic.
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