Part 209 (1/2)

Only one | thought, one pow'r, _Thee_ could | have led, So through the | tempest's hour To lift | thy head!

Only the | true, the strong, The love | whose trust Wo Pours on | the dust”

HEMANS: _Poetical Works_, Vol ii, p 157

Here are fourteen stanzas of co two sorts of lines; the first sort consisting, with a few exceptions, of a dactyl and an amphimac; the second, mostly, of two iambs; but, in so, in such a connexion, reeable combination of quantities

_Example IV--Airs from a ”Serenata”_

Air 1

”Love sounds | the alar; When beau |-ty's the prize, What ?

In defence | of my treas |-~ure, I'd bleed | at each vein; Without | her no pleas |-ure; For life | is a pain”

Air 2

”Consid |-er, fond shep |-h~erd, How fleet |-ing's the pleas |-~ure, That flat |-ters our hopes In pursuit | of the fair: The joys | that attend | ~it, By mo |-ments we meas |-~ure; But life | is too lit |-tle To meas |-ure our care”

GAY'S POEMS: _Johnson's Works of the Poets_, VoL vii, p 378

These verses are essentially either anapestic or amphibrachic The anapest divides two of theht But either division will give many iambs By the present scansion, the _first foot_ is an iamb in all of them but the two anapestics

_Example V--”The Last Leaf”_

1

”I saw | hiain The pave |-round With his cane

2

They say | that in | his pri knife of Time Cut him down, Not a bet |-ter h the town

3

But now | he walks | the streets, And he looks | at all | he meets So forlorn; And he shakes | his fee |-ble head, That it seeone

4

The mos |-sy mar |-bles rest On the lips | that he | has press'd In their bloom; And the names | he lov'd | to hear Have been carv'd | for rand |-o,-- That he had | a Ro |-man nose, And his cheek | was like | a rose In the snow

6

But now | his nose | is thin, And it rests | upon | his chin Like a staff; And a crook | is in | his back And a h

7

I know | it is | a sin For rin At him here; But the old | three-cor |-ner'd hat, And the breech |-es, and | all that, Are so queer!

8

And if I | should live | to be The last leaf | upon | the tree In the spring,-- Let theh Where I cling”

OLIVER W HOLMES: _The Pioneer_, 1843, p 108

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