The English poems of Henry King, D. D., 1592-1669, sometime bishop of Chichester, now first collected from various sources and ed. by Lawrence Mason, PH.D

Horatian Ode Ode in the manner of the Roman poet Horace, adopted, adapted, translated and imitated in English verse esp. in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Hudibrastic Used to describe the kind of tortured polysyllabic rhyming found in Samuel Butler’s mock-epic Hudibras. hypermetric A line with an extra syllable. Technically, a hendecasyllabic line of pentameter is hypermetric. hypermonosyllabic Optional synaeresis q.v. A word that can be sounded with either one or two syllables, i.e. вЂrГ©al’, вЂflГіwer’ and вЂlГ­ar’ (can be said as вЂreel’, вЂflour’ and вЂlyre’). ictus The unit of stress within a foot. The second element in an iamb, the first in a trochee, the third in an anapaest etc. idyll A short pictorial poem, chiefly lyrical or pastoral: вЂidyllic’ is often now used to mean вЂideal’ and вЂperfect’. internal rhyme Oh for heaven’s sake it’s obvious, isn’t it? inversion Reversal of usual sentence structure. вЂHappy am I’, etc. jeu d’esprit Merry word play or similar gamesome larkiness. kenning A Norse and Anglo-Saxon metaphorical or metonymic yoking of words, such as вЂwhale road’ for sea. kigo The вЂseason word’ placed in a haiku to tell the reader in which time of year the verse is set. tomato A red savoury fruit sometimes known as a love-apple which has a place in many sauces and salads but none whatever in a glossary of poetical terms ...»