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MEASURE II--ANAPESTIC OF THREE FEET, OR TRIMETER

_Example I--”Alexander Selkirk”--First Two Stanzas_

I

”I aht | there is none | to dispute; From the cen | -tre all round | to the sea, I am lord | of the fowl | and the brute

O Sol | -itude! where | are the chares have seen | in thy face?

Better dwell | in the n | in this hor | -rible place

II

I am out | of human | -ity's reach, I must fin | -ish my jour | -ney alone, Never hear | the sweet mu | -sic of speech, I start | at the sound | of my own

The beasts | that roam o | -ver the plain, My form | with indif | -ference see; They are so | unacquaint | -ed withto me”

COWPER'S _Poems_, Vol i, p 199

_Example II--”Catharina”--Two Stanzas froh the pleas | -ures of Lon | -don exceed In num | -ber the days | of the year, Cathari | -na, did noth | -ing impede, Would feel | herself hap | -pier here; For the close | -woven arch | -es of limes On the banks | of our riv | -er, I know, Are sweet | -er to her | ht | that the cit | -y can show

V

So it is, | when thetaste | from above; Then, wheth | -er embel | -lish'd or rude, 'Tis na | -ture alone | that we love

The achieve | -ments of art | roves, | hills, and val | -leys, diffuse A last | -ing, a sa | -cred delight”

COWPER'S _Poems_, Vol ii, p 232

_Example III--”A Pastoral Ballad”--Two Stanzas frorove | is there seen, But with ten | -drils of wood | -bine is bound; Not a beech | 's reen, But a sweet | -briar twines | it around, Not my fields | in the prime | of the year More charms | than my cat | -tle unfold; Not a brook | that is liold

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One would think | she ht like | to retire To the bow'r | I have la | -bour'd to rear; Not a shrub | that I heard | her admire, But I hast | -ed and plant | -ed it there

O how sud | -den the jes | -saay!

Alread | -y it calls | for my love, To prune | the wild branch | -es away”

SHENSTONE: _British Poets_, Vol vii, p 139

Anapestic lines of four feet and of three are so instance:--

_Example IV--”The Rose”_

”The rose | had been wash'd, | just wash'd | in a show'r, Which Ma | -ry to An | -na convey'd; The plen | -tiful h'd | down its beau | -tiful head

The cup | was all fill'd, | and the leaves | were all wet, And it seem'd | to a fan | -ciful view, To weep | for the buds | it had left, | with regret, On the flour | -ishi+ng bush | where it grew

I hast | -ily seized | it, unfit | as it was For a nose | -gay, so drip | -ping and drown'd, And, swing | -ing it rude | -ly, too rude | -ly, alas!

I snapp'd | it,--it fell | to the ground