Part 191 (2/2)
”Turn, An | -geli | -na, ev | -er dear, My char | -lost Ed | -win here, Restored | to love | and thee”
_Goldsmith's Poerief, Across | this storh | -land chief, My daugh | -ter!--oh | h_ter_!
'Twas vain: | the loud | waves lashed | the shore, Return | or aid | prevent_ing_:-- The wa | -ters wild | went o'er | his child,-- And he | was left | la of this last stanza is irregular and remarkable, yet not unpleasant It is contrary to rule, to omit any rhyme which the current of the verse leads the reader to expect Yet here the word ”_shore_” ending the first line, has no correspondent sound, where twelve examples of such correspondence had just preceded; while the third line, without previous example, is so rhymed within itself that one scarcely perceives the omission Double rhymes are said by some to unfit this metre for serious subjects, and to adapt it only to what is meant to be burlesque, humorous, or satiric The exaeneral one, ree ie of a siance: as,
”Father | and I | went down | to the ca | with cap | -tain Goodwin, And there || the ;
And there || a thun | -dering gun,-- It took | a horn | of powder,-- It un, Only | a na | -tion louder”
_Original Song of Yankee Doodle_
Even the line of seven feet thened a little by a double rhyay | -ly, o | -ver fell | and fen, | yon sports | -ay | -ly, in | the sun | -bea_!
Of this length, T O Churchill reckons the following couplet; but by the general usage of the day, the final _ed_ is not made a separate syllable:--
”With _hic_ | and _hoec_, | as Pris | -cian tells, | _sacer | -dos_ was | de_cli | -n~ed_; But now | its gen | -der by | the pope | far bet | -ter is | de_fi | -n~ed_”
_Churchill's New Grammar_, p 188
MEASURE III--IAMBIC OF SIX FEET, OR HEXAMETER
_Exa still_ | th~eir=yet | ~in =all Their quan | -tities, | their rests, | their cen | -sures met | -rical”
MICHAEL DRAYTON: _Johnson's Quarto Dict, w Quantity_
_Exa-Hunt_
”And through | the cumb | -rous thicks, | as fear | -fully | he makes, He with | his branch | -ed head | the ten | -der sap | -lings shakes, That sprink | -ling their | oes | the cry, | with yell | -ings loud | and deep, That all | the for | -est rings, | and ev | -ery neigh | -bouring place: And there | is not | a hound | but fall | -eth to | the chase”
DRAYTON: _Three Couplets from twenty-three, in Everett's Versif_, p 66
_Example III--An Extract from Shakespeare_
”If love | make me | forsworn, | how shall | I swear | to love?
O, nev | -er faith | could hold, | if not | to beau | -ty vow'd: Though to | myself | forsworn, | to thee | I'll con | -stant prove; Those thoughts, | to me | like oaks, | to thee | like o | -siers bow'd
_St=ud~y_ | his bi | -as leaves, | and makes | his book | thine eyes, Where all | those pleas | -ures live, | that art | can coe be | the mark, | to know | thee shall | suffice; Well learn | -ed is | that tongue | that well | can thee | co | -norant | that soul | that sees | thee with' | _o~ut wonder_; Which is | to me | some praise, | that I | thy parts | ad seems, | thy voice | his dread | _-ful thunder_, Which (not | to an | -ger bent) | is mu | -sic and | sweet fire
Celes | -tial as | thou art, | O, do | not love | that wrong, To sing | the heav | -ens' praise | with such | an earth | -ly tongue”
_The Passionate Pilgrim, Stanza IX_; SINGER'S SHAK, Vol ii, p 594
_Example IV--The Ten Commandments Versified_
”Adore | no God | besides | me, to | provoke | mine eyes; Nor wor | -shi+p me | in shapes | and forms | that men | devise; With rev | 'rence use | my name, | nor turn | my words | to jest; Observe | my sab | -bath well, | nor dare | profane | my rest; Honor | and due | obe | -dience to | thy pa | -rents give; Nor spill | the guilt | -less blood, | nor let | the guilt | -y live;[507]
Preserve | thy bod | -y chaste, | and flee | th' unlaw | -ful bed; Nor steal | thy neigh | -bor's gold, | his gar | -ment, or | his bread; Forbear | to blast | his name | with false | -hood or deceit; Nor let | thy wish | -es loose | upon | his large | estate”
DR ISAAC WATTS: _Lyric Poeular, of twelve syllables in six iambs, is the _Alexandrine_; said to have been so named because it was ”first used in a poem called _Alexander_”--_Worcester's Dict_ Such metre has soh an entire English poeth being generally esteee, the Alexandrine has been little used by English versifiers, except to co with shorter iambics, or, occasionally, to close a period in heroic rhyme French heroics are similar to this; and if, as soinal poe the exploits of the hero ”_Alexandre_” The phrase, ”_an Alexandrine verse_,” is, in French, ”_un vers Alexandrin_” Dr Gregory, in his Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, copies Johnson's Quarto Dictionary, which says, ”ALEXANDRINE, a kind of verse borrowed from the French, first used in a poe the French, of twelve and thirteen syllables, in alternate couplets; and, a us, of twelve” Dr Webster, in his Aives to the nae two sorts of the English verse: ”ALEXAN'DRINE, or ALEXAN'DRIAN, _n_ A kind of verse, consisting of twelve syllables, or of twelve and thirteen alternately”