Introduction  (Read the Introduction)

Chapter 1:  Meter, Meaning, and the Metrical Code

Dickinson and Patriarchal Meter:   A Theory of the Metrical Code

Iambic and Dactylic Associations in Leaves of Grass

Stephen Crane and the Rhythms of the 1890s

T.S. Eliot and the Metrical Crisis of the Early Twentieth Century

Contemporary Free Verse: A Postscript