Part 12 (2/2)

Our trochaick measures are Of three syllables,

Here we may Think and pray, Before death Stops our breath: Other joys Are but toys Walton's Angler

Of five,

In the days of old, Stories plainly told, Lovers felt annoy Old Ballad

Of seven,

Fairest piece of well forhty birth Waller

In these measures the accent is to be placed on the odd syllables

These are the measures which are now in use, and above the rest those of seven, eight, and ten syllables Our ancient poets wrote verses sometimes of twelve syllables, as Drayton's Polyolbion

Of all the Cah, And farth'st survey their soils with an ambitious eye, Mervinia for her hills, as for their matchless crouds, The nearest that are said to kiss the wand'ring clouds, Especial audience craves, offended with the throng, That she of all the rest neglected was so long; Alledging for herself, when, through the Saxons' pride, The Godlike race of Brute to Severn's setting side Were cruelly inforc'd, herwar else every where did grieve

And when all Wales beside (by fortune or by ht, A constant enuine lahich stoutly did retain

And as each one is prais'd for her peculiar things; So only she is rich, in reat in her superfluous waste, As others by their towns, and fruitful tillage grac'd

And of fourteen, as Chapman's Ho way gone, And either knoweth not his way, or else would let alone, His purpos'd journey, is distract

The led by our old poets, sometimes in alternate lines, and sometimes in alternate couplets

The verse of twelve syllables, called an Alexandrine, is now only used to diversify heroick lines

Waller was s verse, the full resounding line, The long y divine Pope

The pause in the Alexandrine must be at the sixth syllable

The verse of fourteen syllables is now broken into a soft lyrick ht syllables and six

She to receive thy radiant name, Selects a whiter spaceFenton

When all shall praise, and ev'ry lay Devote a wreath to thee, That day, for come it will, that day Shall I lament to see Lewis to Pope

Beneath this tomb an infant lies To earth whose body lent, Hereafter shall lorious rise, But not el's trump shall blow, And souls to bodies join, What crowds shall wish their lives below Had been as short as thine! Wesley

We have another s, which may be called the anapestick, in which the accent rests upon every third syllable

May I govern roiser and better as life wears away Dr Pope

In this measure a syllable is often retrenched from the first foot, as