Example III-An Ode, from the French of Malherbe. "This An-na so fair, So talk'd of by fame, Of her charms, as they say; What excuse can she make For not coming away? If he does not possess, He dies with despair; Let's give him redress, And go find out the fair." 1. "Cette Anne si belle, Qu'on vante si fort, Qu'elle ne vient pas ? Il s'en va mourir ; Allons la quérir." WILLIAM KING, LL. D.: Johnson's British Poets, Vol. iii, p. 590. Example IV.-'Tis the Last Rose of Summer. ""Tis the last | rose of sum | -měr, Left bloom-ing alone; All her lovely companions No flow'r of her kin | -drěd, T To reflect back her blush | -es, 2. I'll not leave thee, thou lone | one! Since the lovely are sleep | -ing, Go, sleep thou with them; Thus kindly I scat | -těr Thy leaves o'er thy bed, Where thy mates | of the gar | -děn Lie scent-less and dead. 3. So, soon may I follow, When friend-ships decay, When true hearts lie with -ër'd, Oh! who would inhab | -it This bleak world alone?" T. MOORE: Melodies, Songs, and Airs, p. 171. Example V-Nemesis Calling up the Dead Astarte. "Shadow! or spirit! Whatever thou art, Which still doth inher | -ît The whole or a part Of the form of thy birth, Of the mould of thy clay, Which return'd to the earth, Example VI.-Anapestic Re-appear to the day! The heart and the form, And the as-pect thou wor | -ěst LORD BYRON: Manfred, Act ii, Sc. 4. Dimeter with Trimeter. SECOND VOICE. "Give the word | to begin, Let the com-batants in, The challenger en -ters all glo | rioùs; Though Beauty may bleed, Yet Beauty shall still be victo | -rious." GEORGE GRANVILLE: Johnson's British Poets, Vol. v, p. 58. Example VII.-Anapestic Dimeter with Tetrameter. AIR. "Let the pipe's | merry notes | aid the skill | of the voice; Rejoice, and be glad; For, sure, he is mad, Who, where mirth, and good hu | -mour, and har | -mony's found, Let the stupid be grave, Who is born in a coun | -try that's happy and free." LLOYD: Johnson's British Poets, Vol. viii, p, 178. MEASURE IV.-ANAPESTIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER. This measure is rarely if ever used except in connexion with longer lines. The following example has six anapestics of two feet, and two of one; but the latter, being verses of double rhyme, have each a surplus short syllable; and four of the former commence with the iambus: GRANVILLE, VISCOUNT LANSDOWNE: Joh. Brit. Poets, Vol. v, p. 49. The following extract, (which is most properly to be scanned as anapestic, though considerably diversified,) has two lines, each of which is pretty evidently composed of a single anapest:— OBS. 1.-That a single anapest, a single foot of any kind, or even a single long syllable, may be, and sometimes is, in certain rather uncommon instances, set as a line, is not to be denied. "Dr. Caustic," or T. G. Fessenden, in his satirical "Directions for Doing Poetry," uses in this manner the monosyllables, Whew," "Say," and "Dress," and also the iambs, "The gay," and, "All such," rhyming them with something less isolated. OBS. 2.-Many of our grammarians give anonymous examples of what they conceive to be "Anapestic Monometer," or "the line of one anapest," while others-(as Allen, Bullions, Churchill, and Hiley-) will have the length of two anapests to be the shortest measure of this order. Prof. Hart says, "The shortest anapæstic verse is a single anapæst; as, 'In ǎ sweet All their feet All the night This measure," it is added, "is, however, ambiguous; for by laying an accent on the first, as well as the third syllable, we may generally make it a trochaic."-Hart's English Gram., p. 188. The same six versicles are used as an example by Prof. Fowler, who, without admitting any ambiguity in the measure, introduces them, rather solecistically, thus: "Each of the following lines consist of a single Anapest."-Fowler's E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, § 694. OBS. 3.-Verses of three syllables, with the second short, the last long, and the first common, or variable, are, it would seem, doubly doubtful in scansion; for, while the first syllable, if made short, gives us an anapest, to make it long, gives either an amphimac or what is virtually two trochees. For reasons of choice in the latter case, see Observation 1st on Trochaic Dimeter. For the fixing of variable quantities, since the case admits no other rule, regard should be had to the analogy of the verse, and also to the common principles of accentuation. It is doubtless possible to read the six short lines above, into the measure of so many anapests; but, since the two monosyllables “In” and “All” are as easily made long as short, whoever considers the common pronunciation of the longer words, "Resonance" and "Tinkled," may well doubt whether the learned professors have, in this instance, hit upon the right mode of scansion. The example may quite as well be regarded either as Trochaic Dimeter, cataletic, or as Amphimacric Monometer, acatalectic. But the word resonance, being accented usually on the first syllable only, is naturally a dactyl; and, since the other five little verses end severally with a monosyllable, which can be varied in quantity, it is possible to read them all as being dactylics; and so the whole may be regarded as trebly doubtful with respect to the measure. OBS. 4.-L. Murray says, "The shortest anapastic verse must be a single anapast; as, But in vain They complain." And then he adds, "This measure is, however, ambiguous; for, by laying the stress of the voice on the first and third syllables, we might make a trochaic. And therefore the first and simplest form of our genuine Anapæstic verse, is made up of two anapasts."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 257; 12mo, p. 207. This conclusion is utterly absurd, as well as completely contradictory to his first assertion. The genuineness of this small metre depends not at all on what may be made of the same words by other pronunciation; nor can it be a very natural reading of this passage, that gives to "But" and "They" such emphasis as will make them long. OBS. 5.-Yet Chandler, in his improved grammar of 1847, has not failed to repeat the substanco of all this absurdity and self-contradiction, carefully dressing it up in other language, thus: "Verses composed of single Anapasts are frequently found in stanzas of songs; and the same is true of several of the other kinds of feet; but we may consider the first [i. e., shortest] form of anapestic verse as consisting of two Anapasts."-Chandler's Common School Gram., p. 196. OBS. 6.-Everett, speaking of anapestic lines, says, "The first and shortest of these is composed of a single Anapest following an Iambus."-English Versification, p. 99. This not only denies the existence of Anapestic Monometer, but improperly takes for the Anapestic verse what is, by the statement itself, half Iambic, and therefore of the Composite Order. But the false assertion is plainly refuted even by the author himself, and on the same page. For, at the bottom of the page, he has this contradictory note: "It has been remarked (§ 15) that though the Iambus with an additional short syllable is the shortest line that is known to Iambic verse, there are isolated instances of a single Iambus, and even of a single long syllable. There are examples of lines made up of a single Anapest, as the following example will show : 'Jove in his chair, Of the sky lord mayor, Cock of the school, His bald pate For a straw. TEE Men and gods Keeps in awe; Heaven shrinks; Though absurd, Though so great, Cowed deities, Like mice in cheese, O'HARA:-Midas, Act i, Sc. 1."—Everett's Versification, p. 99. 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, and the tenth syllable of each line of four feet. Full dactylic generally forms triple rhyme. When one of the final short syllables is omitted, the rhyme is double; when both, single. These omissions are here essential to the formation of such rhymes. Dactylic with double rhyme, ends virtually with a trochee; dactylic with single rhyme, commonly ends with a caesura; that is, with a long syllable taken for a foot. Dactylic with single rhyme is the same as anapestic would be without its initial short syllables. Dactylic verse is rather uncommon; and, when employed, is seldom perfectly pure and regular. MEASURE I.-DACTYLIC OF EIGHT FEET, OR OCTOMETER. Nimrod the hunter was | mighty in | hunting, and | famed as the ruler of cities of yore; Babel, and Erech, and | Accad, and | Calneh, from | Shinar's fair | region his name afar | bore. MEASURE II.-DACTYLIC OF SEVEN FEET, OR HEPTAMETER. Example.-Christ's Kingdom. Out of the kingdom of | Christ shall be gathered, by angels o'er | Satan vic | -torious, MEASURE III.-DACTYLIC OF SIX FEET, OR HEXAMETER. Time, thou art ever in | motion, on wheels of the | days, years, and | ages; Example II.- Where is Grand-Pré? "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? Where is the thatch-roofed | village, the | home of A | -cadian | farmers?" H. W. LONGFELLOW: Evangeline, Part i, 1. 7-9. MEASURE IV.-DACTYLIC OF FIVE FEET, OR PENTAMETER. "Land of the Land of the beautiful, | beautiful, | land of the free, Gleamed on my waking thought, | waking thought, crowded my dream. Land of the beautiful, | beautiful, | land of the | free, Land of the negro-slave, | negro-slave, | land of the chivalry." MEASURE V.-DACTYLIC OF FOUR FEET, OR TETRAMETER. "Weary way-wanderer, | languid and sick at heart, Wild-visaged Wanderer! | God help thee, | wretched one! Sorely thy little one | drags by thee | barefooted; Cold is the Meagre, and baby that hangs at thy bending back, Woe-begone | mother, half anger, half agony, ROBERT SOUTHEY: Poems, Philad., 1843, p. 250. Example II.--Boys.-A Dactylic Stanza. "Boys will an -ticipate, | lavish, and dissipate FRANCES S. OSGOOD: Clapp's Pioneer, p. 94. Example IV.-" Boat Song."-First Stanza of Four. Honour'd and bless'd be the ever-green | pine! Earth lend it sap anew, Gayly to bourgeon, and | broadly to grow, Sends our shout back agen, 'Roderigh Vich Alpine Dhu, ho! ieroe!'" WALTER SCOTT: Lady of the Lake, C. ii, St. 19. MEASURE VI.-DACTYLIC OF THREE FEET, OR TRIMETER. "Ka-ty-did, Ka-ty-did, sweetly sing,- Cheerily, cheerily, insect, sing; Blithe be thy notes in the | hickory: MEASURE VII.—DACTYLIC OF TWO FEET, OR DIMETER. "Free from sa | -tiety, Care, and anxiety, Charms in variety, Fall to his share."ANON.: Newspaper. Example II.-The Pibroch.-Sixteen Lines from Forty. "Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, Pibroch of Donuil, Wake thy wild | voice anew, Summon Clan | -Conuil. "Come as the winds come, when Navies are waves come, when Forests are rended; Come as the stranded: "One more new claimant for Human fraternity, Swelling the flood that sweeps I who have filled the cup, Incomprehensible, Clouded in mystery, Wisdom itself cannot Guess at its history. One aunty says he will No blemish | spots his fame- Young Mr. Watts his name." MEASURE VIII.-DACTYLIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER. "Fearfully, OBSERVATIONS. OBS. 1.-A single dactyl, set as a line, can scarcely be used otherwise than as part of a stanza, and in connexion with longer verses. The initial accent and triple rhyme make it necessary to have something else with it. Hence this short measure is much less common than the others, which are accented differently. Besides, the line of three syllables, as was noticed in the observations on Anapestic Monometer, is often peculiarly uncertain in regard to the measure which it should make. A little difference in the laying of emphasis or accent may, in many instances, change it from one species of verse to an other. Even what seems to be dactylic of two feet, if the last syllable be sufficiently lengthened to admit of single rhyme with the full metre, becomes somewhat doubtful in its scansion; because, in such case, the last foot may be reckoned an amphimac, or amphimacer. Of this, the following stanzas from Barton's lines "to the Gallic Eagle," (or to Bonaparte on St. Helena,) though different from all the rest of the piece, may serve as a specimen : "Far from the battle's shock, Waves warring | round thee. [Now, for] the Irumpet's sound, Sea-birds are shrieking; OBS. 2.-This may be regarded as verse of the Composite Order; and, perhaps, more properly so, than as Dactylic with mere incidental variations. Lines like those in which the questionable foot is here Italicized, may be united with longer dactylics, and thus produce a stanza of great beauty and harmony. The following is a specimen. It is a song, written by I know not whom, but set to music by Dempster. The twelfth line is varied to a different measure. "ADDRESS TO THE SKYLARK." "Bird of the wilderness, Emblem of Light be thy matin o'er | moorland and | lea; O! to abide in the happiness, |