Single Rhyme.

"Tumult

cease, Sink to peace."

Measure 8th.-Trochaic of One Foot, or Monometer.

ORDER III.-ANAPESTIC VERSE.

In Anapestic verse the stress is laid on every third syllable. The first foot of an anapestic line, may be an iambus.

Measure 1st.-Anapestic of Four Feet, or Tetrameter. "At the clōse | ŏf thě dãy, | when the hām -lět is still. And mortals the sweets of forget -fulness prove."

Hypermeter with Double Rhyme.

"In a word, so complete -ly forestall'd | were the wish -es, Even har-mony struck from the noise of the dish -es."

Hypermeter with Triple Rhyme.

"Lean Tom, when I saw | him, last week, | on his horse |

awry,

Threaten'd loud-ly to turn | me to stone | with his sor|-cery.” Measure 2d.-Anapestic of Three Feet, or Trimeter.

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"I am mōn -ǎrch of all | I survēy;

My right there is none | to dispute."

Measure 3d.-Anapestic of Two Feet, or Dimeter.

"When I look | on my bōys,
They renew all my joys."

Measure 4th.-Anapestic of One Foot, or Monometer.
"On the land

Let me stand."

ORDER IV.--DACTYLIC VERSE.

In pure Dactylic verse, the stress is laid on the first syllable of each successive three; that is, on the first, the fourth, the seventh, the tenth syllable, &c. Full dactylic generally forms triple rhyme. When one of the final short syllables is omitted, the rhyme is double; when both, single. Dactylic with single rhyme is the same as anapestic would be without its initial short syllables. Dactylic measure is rather uncommon; and, when employed, is seldom perfectly regular.

Measure 1st.-Dactylic of Eight Feet, or Octometer.

"Nimrod the

hunter wǎs | mighty in | hunting, and | famed ǎs the ruler of cities of yōre;

Babel, and Erech, and | Accad, and | Calneh, from | Shinar's fair | region his name afar bore."

Measure 2d.-Dactylic of Seven Feet, or Heptameter. "Out of the kingdom of | Christ shall be gathered, by | angels o'er Satan victorious,

All that offendeth, that | lieth, that | faileth to | honour his | name ever glorious."

Measure 3d.-Dactylic of Six Feet, or Hexameter.

"Time, thou art | ever in | motion, on wheels of the days, years, and ages;

Restless as waves of the ocean, when | Eurus or | Boreas | rages."

Example without Rhyme.

"This is the forest pri-meval; but where are the hearts that be-neath it

Leap'd like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman ?"

Measure 4th.-Dactylic of Five Feet, or Pentameter. "Now thou dost | welcome me, | welcome me, | from the dark sea,

Land of the beautiful, | beautiful, | land of the | free."

Measure 5th.-Dactylic of Four Feet, or Tetrameter.

"Bōys will ǎnticipăte, | lavish, ănd | dissipăte

All that your busy pǎte | hōarded with | care;
And, in their | foolishness, | passion, and mulishness,
Charge you with churlishness, | spurning your | pray'r."
Measure 6th.-Dactylic of Three Feet, or Trimeter.
“Evěr sing | mērrilỹ, | mērrily.”

Measure 7th.-Dactylic of Two Feet, or Dimeter.
"Free from să tiěty,

Care, and anxiety,
Charms in variety,

Fall to his share."

Measure 8th.-Dactylic of One Foot, or Monometer.

CHAPTER V.-ORAL EXERCISES.

EXAMPLES FOR PARSING.

PRAXIS IX.-PROSODICAL.

In the Ninth Praxis, are exemplified the several Figures of Orthography, of Etymology, of Syntax, and of Rhetoric, which the parser may name and define; and by it the pupil may also be exercised in relation to the principles of Punctuation, Utterance, and Versification.

LESSON I.-FIGURES OF ORTHOGRAPHY.

MIMESIS AND ARCHAISM.

"Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-book; and we will afterwards 'ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can."-Shak.

"Vat is you sing? I do not like dese toys. Pray you, go and vetch me in my closet un boitier verd; a box, a green-a box. Do intend vat I speak? a green-a box.”—Id.

"I ax'd you what you had to sell. I am fitting out a wessel for Wenice, loading her with warious keinds of provisions, and wittualling her for a long woyage; and I want several undred weight of weal, wenison, &c., with plenty of inyons and winegar, for the preservation of ealth."-Columbian Orator, p. 292.

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"None [else are] so desperately evill, as they that may bee good and will not: or have beene good and are not. -Rev. John Rogers, 1620. "A Carpenter finds his work as hee left it, but a Minister shall find his sett back. You need preach continually."-Id.

"Here whilom ligg'd th' Esopus of his age,

But call'd by Fame, in soul ypricked deep."-Thomson. "It was a fountain of Nepenthe rare,

Whence, as Dan Homer sings, huge pleasaunce grew."-Id.

LESSON II.-FIGURES OF ETYMOLOGY.

APHÆRESIS, PROSTHESIS, SYNCOPE, APOCOPE, PARAGOGE, DIÆRESIS, SYNÆRESIS, AND TMESIS.

Bend 'gainst the steepy hill thy breast,

Burst down like torrent from its crest."-Scott.

'Tis mine to teach th' inactive hand to reap
Kind nature's bounties, o'er the globe diffus'd.-Dyer.
Alas! alas! how impotently true

Th' aerial pencil forms the scene anew.--Cawthorne.

Here a deformed monster joy'd to won,
Which on fell rancour ever was ybent.-Lloyd.
Withouten trump was proclamation made.―Thomson.
The gentle knight, who saw their rueful case,
Let fall adown his silver beard some tears.
'Certes,' quoth he, 'it is not e'en in grace,
T" undo the past and eke your broken years.'-Id.
Vain tamp'ring has but foster'd his disease;

'Tis desp'rate, and he sleeps the sleep of death.-Cowper.
I have a pain upon my forehead here-

Why that's with watching; 'twill away again.-Shakspeare. I'll to the woods, among the happier brutes;

Come, let's away; hark! the shrill horn resounds.—Smith.
What prayer and supplication soever be made.-Bible.
By the grace of God we have had our conversation in the
world, and more abundantly to you ward.—Id.

LESSON III.-FIGURES OF SYNTAX.

FIGURE I.-ELLIPSIS.

And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn,
And [-] villager [-] abroad at early toil.-Beattie,
The cottage curs at [-] early pilgrim bark.-Id.
"Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears,

Our most important [-] are our earliest years.--Cowper.
To earn her aid, with fix'd and anxious eye,
He looks on nature's [-] and on fortune's course;
Too much in vain.-Akenside.

True dignity is his, whose tranquil mind

Virtue has rais'd above the things [-] below;

Who, ev'ry hope and [-] fear to Heav'n resign'd,

Shrinks not, though Fortune aim her deadliest blow.-Beattie.

For longer in that paradise to dwell,

The law [-] I gave to nature, him forbids.--Milton.

So little mercy shows [-] who needs so much.--Cowper.
Bliss is the same [-] in subject, as [-] in king;
In [-] who obtain defence, and [-] who defend.-Pope.
Man made for kings! those optics are but dim

That tell you so-say rather, they [-] for him.-Cowper.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart,

But God will never [

-].—Id.

Mortals whose pleasures are their only care,

First wish to be impos'd on, and then are [—].—Id.

Vigour [-] from toil, from trouble patience grows.-Beattie. Where now the rill melodious, [-] pure, and cool,

And meads, with life, and mirth, and beauty crown'd ?—Id.

How dead the vegetable kingdom lies!
How dumb the tuneful [-

Self-love and Reason to one end aspire,

-]!—Thomson.

Pain [-] their aversion, pleasure [-] their desire;
But greedy that its object would devour,

This [-] taste the honey, and not wound the flower.--Pope.

LESSON IV. FIGURES OF SYNTAX.

FIGURE II.-PLEONASM.

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay; fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies.-Bible.

My head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.-Solomon's Song, v, 2.

Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.-Jer., xxxi, 18.

Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.-Matt., vi, 28. He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.-2 Cor., x, 17. He too is witness, noblest of the train

That waits on man, the flight-performing horse.-Cowper.

FIGURE III.-SYLLEPSIS.

'Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas; which is, by interpretation, a stone.-John, i, 42.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: 'Behold I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.'—Jer., xlix, 35.

Behold I lay in Zion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence; and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.-Rom., ix, 33.

Thus Conscience pleads her cause within the breast,
Though long rebell'd against, not yet suppress'd.-Cowper.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.-Id.

For those the race of Israel oft forsook

Their living strength, and unfrequented left
His righteous altar, bowing lowly down
To bestial gods.--Milton.