Part 195 (1/2)
YOUNG'S ”OCEAN:” _British Poets_, Vol viii, p 277
There is a line of five syllables and double rhyarded as iambic dih it is susceptible of two other divisions into two feet, we prefer to scan in this manner, because it usually alternates with pure ia extract:--
LOVE TRANSITORY
”Could Love | for ev_er_ Run like | a riv_er_, And Time's | endeav_our_ Be tried | in vain,-- No oth | -er pleas_ure_ With this | could| the chain
But since | our sigh_ing_ Ends not | in dy_ing_, And, for; Then for | this rea_son_ Let's love | a sea_son_; But let | that sea_son_ Be on | -ly spring”
LORD BYRON: See _Everett's Versification_, p 19; _Fowler's E Gram_, p 650
MEASURE VIII--IAMBIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER
”The shortest forlish Iambic,” says Lindley Murray, ”consists of an Ia, Co
We have no poem of this measure, but it may be met with in stanzas The Iambus, with this addition, coincides with the Amphibrach”--_Murray's Gram_, 12mo, p 204; 8vo, p 254 This, or the substance of it, has been repeated by e and illustration, but teaches the same doctrine See _E Versif_, p 15
Now there are sundry examples which may be cited to show, that the iambus, without any additional syllable, and without the liability of being confounded with an other foot, ular rhy pieces contain instances of this sort:--
_Example I--”How to Keep Lent”_
”Is this | a Fast, | to keep The lard | -er lean And clean From fat | of neats | and sheep?
Is it | to quit | the dish Of flesh, | yet still To fill The plat | -ter high | with fish?
Is it | to fast | an hour, Or ragg'd | to go, Or show A down | -cast look | and sour?
No:--'Tis | a Fast | to dole Thy sheaf | of wheat, And ry soul
It is | to fast | from strife, From old | debate, And hate; To cir | -curief-rent; To starve | thy sin, Not _bin_: Ay, that's | to keep | thy Lent”
ROBERT HERRICK: _Clapp's Pioneer_, p 48
Exaement of seventy-two separate iambic feet, I find _without intermediate points_, and leave it so It seems intended to be read in three or more different ways, and the punctuation required by onewould not wholly suit an other]
”Your face Your tongue Your wit So fair So sweet So sharp First bent Then drew Then hit Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart
Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart To like To learn To love Your face Your tongue Your wit Doth lead Doth teach Doth ue Your wit With beams With sound With art Doth blind Doth charm Doth rule Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart
Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart With life With hope With skill Your face Your tongue Your wit Doth feed Doth feast Doth fill
O face O tongue O wit With frowns With cheek With s not Vex not Wound not Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart
This eye This ear This heart Shall joy Shall bend Shall swear Your face Your tongue Your wit To serve To trust To fear”
ANONYMOUS: _Sundry American Newspapers_, in 1849