Excerpt from Sudermann's Treatment of Verse
Among the English the five foot iambus was the early favorite even at the time of Chaucer. It was employed with rhyme as heroic verse in dramatic, didactic and epic poetry, and without rhyme as blank verse in the drama, epic and later in descriptions of nature (thompson). This verse was treated with much more latitude in England than in Italy. The caesura was used freely and the fifth foot could be either masculine, or feminine.
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