Study of Rhythmic Structure in the Verse of William Butler Yeats

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. PRELIMINARIES TO ANALYSIS -- II. THE METRICAL FORM -- III. THE STRUCTURES OF SPEECH: THE RHYTHMIC GROUP -- IV. THE STRUCTURES OF SPEECH: THE SPEECH-UNIT -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A: A Listing of the Texts Analyzed -- APPENDIX B: Readings of the Lines for Analysis -- APPENDIX C: The Statistical Tables -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX