Part 203 (1/2)
”T~o l=ove ~and t~o l=angu~ish, T~o s=igh | ~and c~ou~ish!+
H~ow t~or, Denying, O the curse | of disdain!
How tor's the pain!”
GEO GRANVILLE: _Br Poets_, Vol v, p 31
OBSERVATIONS
OBS 1--The ed in our ordinary schemes of prosody, scarcely amount, with all their ”boundless variety,” to more than one half, or three quarters, of whatexaer, and sorah perhaps not so easily quotable This last trochaic metre, so far as I know, has not been used alone,--that is, without longer lines,--except where grammarians so set examples of it in their prosodies
OBS 2--”Trochaic of One foot,” as well as ”Ianized, prosodically, in Brown's Institutes of English Grammar, a work first published in 1823 Since that tiement in sundry scherammars; as in Farnum's, and Hallock's, of 1842; in Pardon Davis's, of 1845; in S W Clark's, and S S Greene's, of 1848; in Professor Fowler's, of 1850 Wells, in his School Graive to the _length of lines_ a laxity positively absurd: ”_Rhymed_ verses,” say they, ”may consist of _any number_ of syllables”--_Wells_, 1st Ed, p 187; late Ed, 204; _Allen_, p 88 Everett has recognized ”_The line of a single Trochee_,” though he repudiates so measures that are much more extensively authorized
ORDER III--ANAPESTIC VERSE
In full Anapestic verse, the stress is laid on every third syllable, the first two syllables of each foot being short The first foot of an anapestic line, may be an iambus This is the most frequent diversification of the order But, as a diversification, it is, of course, not _regular_ or _uniform_ The stated or uniform adoption of the iambus for a part of each line, and of the anapest for the residue of it, produces verse of the _Co syllable, its rhyle; and a short syllable after this, producing double rhyme, is, of course, supernumerary: so are the then the rhyme is triple
Some prosodists suppose, a surplus at the end of a lineof the next line; but this I judge to be an error, or at least the indulgence of a questionable license The following passage has two examples of whatused a dash where I have inserted what seems to be a necessary word:--
”Apol | -lo smil'd shrewd | -ly, and bade | hied the town; Now pray, | copy less-- | have a lit | -tle tee poster | -_ity_
[For] All | you add now | only les | -sens your cred | -_it_; And how | could you think, | too, of tak | -ing to ed | -_ite?_'”
LEIGH HUNT'S _Feast of the Poets_, page 20
The anapestic , and no poet has chosen to set a great many in a line Possibly lines of five anapests, or of four and an initial iath some of the iambics and trochaics already exhibited But I do not find any exaainedtetrameters with triple rhyme, or lines of four anapests and two short surplus syllables This order consists therefore ofheads:--
MEASURE I--ANAPESTIC OF FOUR FEET, OR TETRAMETER
_Example I--A ”Postscript”--An Example with Hypermeter_
”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_
But, I think, | little Dan, | that, in spite | of what _our_ | _foe says_, He will find | I read Ov | -id and his | Meta_ the first, | (where I make | a com_par_ | -_ison_, With a sort | of allu | -sion to Put | -land or _Har_ | -_rison_,) Yet, by | my descrip | -tion, you'll find | he in _short_ | _is_ A pack | and a gar | -ran, a top | and a _tor_ | -_toise_
So I hope | from hencefor | -ward you ne'er | will ask, _can_ | _I , conceit | -ed, rude, in | -solent _an_ | -_iht be turn'd | to his _ben_ | -_efit_, (For I pit | -y the lad _then_ | _of it_”
SWIFT'S POEMS: _Johnson's British Poets_, Vol v, p 324
_Example II--”The Feast of the Poets”--First Twelve Lines_
”T' other day, | as Apol | -lo sat pitch | -ing his darts Through the clouds | of Novean | to consid | -er how long | it had been Since the bards | of Old Eng | -land had all | been rung in
'I think,' | said the God, | recollect | -ing, (and then He fell twid | -dling a sun | -beam as I | may my pen,) 'I think-- | let o now | as that Buck | -ingham there; And yet | I can't see | why I've been | so remiss, Unless | it may be-- | and it cer | -tainly is, That since Dry | -den's fine ver | -ses and Mil | -ton's subli and rhyme'”
LEIGH HUNT: _Poems_, New-York Edition, of 1814
_Exa of Four Favourites_
”Then, 'Coant mirth, 'Let us make | us a heav'n | of our own | upon earth, And wake, | with the lips | that we dip | in our bowls, That divin | -est of , he led | through the din | -ing-roo the po | -ets, cried, 'Lau | -rels for four!'
No soon | -er demand | -ed, than, lo! | they were there, And each | of the bards | had a wreath | in his hair
Tom Camp | -bell's il | -low and pop | -lar in'd, And South | -ey's, with moun | -tain-ash, pluck'd | in the wind; And Scott's, | with a heath | froarden stores, And, with vine | -leaves and jump | -up-and-kiss | -me, Tom Moore's”
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