All crimes | shall cease, | ǎnd ancient fraud | shǎll fail; 6. Of six feet. His heart is sad, | his hōpe | is gone, | his light | is passed, 7. Of seven feet. There's beauty all | ǎround | ŏur paths, | If būt | Ŏur watch | ful eyes Each of these species of iambic verse may have an additional short syllable. Thus: 1. Disdaining. 2. Upon | ǎ mōuntain. 3. When on | hěr Mā|kĕr's bō som. 4. Bŭt hãil, | thou gōd | děss, sāge | ǎnd hō|ly. 5. What slender youth, | běděwed | with liquid ō | dŏur. 6. Whose frōnt | căn brave | the stōrm, | but will | not rear | the flōw |ĕr. 7. To scatter ō'er | his path | of fame | bright hues | of gem | like shōw |ĕrs. Iambic verse of five feet is called Heroic verse. A verse of six feet is called an Alexandrine. An Elegiac stanza consists of four heroic verses rhyming alternately; as, The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The Spenserian stanza consists of eight heroic verses, fol Mention an iambic verse of three feet. Of four feet.-Of five feet.-Of six feet. Of seven feet. What is heroic verse? What is an Alexandrine? Of what does an elegiac stanza consist? Mention some iambic verses which take Of what does the Spenserian stanza con an additional short syllable. sist? lowed by an Alexandrine. The first verse rhymes with the third; the second with the fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth with the eighth and ninth; as, And greedy Avarice by him did ride, Accursed usury was all his trade; And right and wrong alike in equal balance weighed. This stanza is named from the poet Spenser. It is the measure in which his "Faerie Queene" is written. Iambic verse of seven feet is usually divided into two lines; the first containing four feet, the second three; as, When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, This is what is called common meter. Long meter has four iambuses in a verse. Short meter has three iambuses in the first, second, and fourth verses, and four in the third. TROCHAIC VERSE. 1. Of one foot. Straying, Playing. 2. Of two feet. Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure. From whom is the Spenserian stanza | What is common meter?-long meter?— named? short meter? How is iambic verse of seven feet usually Mention a trochaic verse of one foot.-Of divided? two feet. Gō where | glōry | waits thĕe, 3. Of three feet. 4. Of four feet. Maids are sitting | bỹ thě | fountǎin, 5. Of five feet. All that walk on | foot or | ride în | chariots, All that dwell in palaces or garrets. 6. Of six feet. On ǎ | mountǎin, | stretched bě | neath ǎ | hōary | willow, In iambic verse, the accent is on the even syllables; in trochaic, on the odd. Trochaic verse may take an additional long syllable; thus, 1. On thy state Whirlwinds wait. 2. And at night they sleep In the rocking deep. 3. Thee the võice, thě¦ dance Ŏ|bey, Tempered to thy warbled lay. 4. Idlě | after dinner | in his | chair Sat a farmer, ruddy, fat, and fair. 5. Hail to thee, blithe | spirit! | bird thou | něvěr | wērt, That from heav'n or near it, pourest thy full heart. 6. Night and mōrning | wēre ǎt | meeting | ōvěr | Water | loo; Cocks had sung their earliest greeting; faint and low they crew. In the last two forms, each line is usually divided into two. Thus: Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, etc. Night and morning were at meeting Trochaic verse, with an additional long syllable, is the same as iambic verse without the initial short syllable. Mention a trochaic verse of three feet. Of four feet. Of five feet. Of six feet. Where is the accent in iambic verse ?-In trochaic? Mention some trochaic verses which take an additional long syllable. ANAPESTIC VERSE. 1. Of one foot. But too far Each proud star. 2. Of two feet. Where the sun | loves to pause, That the night only draws 3. Of three feet. I have found out å gift | for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. 4. Of four feet. There is not in the wide | world ǎ vál|lěy so sweet The first form is ambiguous, since by putting a little more stress on the first syllable, we may scan it as a trochee with an additional long syllable. An additional short syllable may be added to each of these forms. But when a short syllable is added to the first form, we usually give more stress to the first syllable, and make two trochees. 4. Of four feet. Bachelor's Hall, what ǎ | quare looking | place it is, Něvěr ǎt all to bě | getting ǎ | wife. A dactylic verse scarcely ever ends with a dactyl. Sometimes one long syllable is added, sometimes a trochee. Thus: Brightest ǎnd | best of thě | sōns of thě | morning, Scarcely any poem is perfectly regular in its feet. verse, for instance, admits of either of the other feet. Prophět of plagues, forever boding ill. Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night. Brought death into the world and all our woes. And thunders down impetuous to the plain. Iambic Thus : In iambic verse, the initial short syllable is often omitted, and the verse becomes trochaic, with an additional long syllable. In trochaic verse, if the initial long syllable is omitted, the line becomes iambic, with an additional short syllable. In anapestic verse, if the two initial short syllables are omitted, the verse becomes dactylic, with a long syllable added. In dactylic verse, if the initial long syllable is omitted, the verse becomes anapestic. By intermingling iambuses and anapests a pleasing movement is produced. This is often done by modern noets. Thus; I come, I come! | ye have called | mě lông, I cōme | o'er the mountains with light | ănd song! Mention a dactylic verse of four feet. feet? If the initial short syllable is omitted in iambic verse, what does the verse become? If the initial long syllable is omitted in trochaic verse, what does the verse become? How may an anapestic verse become dactylic? How may a dactylic verse become anapestic? What is produced by intermingling anapests with iambuses? |