Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. The Nature of Rhythm -- III. Phonological Backgrounds to Metrical Analysis -- IV. Objective Analyses of Metrical Properties: A Survey -- V. The Components of English Meter -- VI. Shakespeare's Eighteenth Sonnet: An Experiment in Metrical Analysis -- VII. The Function of Meter -- Appendix. The Stress Systems of Kenneth Pike, and George L. Trager and Henry Lee Smith, Jr. -- Backmatter