788. Trochaic Trimeter. The third species consists of three trochees; as, When our | hearts ǎre | mōurning : 1 of three trochees, with an additional long or accented sylla ble; as, Restless | mōrtăls | tõil för | nought; There yoŭ | cănnot | séek in | vāin; 789. Trochaic Tetrameter. The fourth Trochaic species con sists of four trochees; as, Round us | roars the | tempest | louder. This form may take an additional long or accented syllable, as follows: Īdle | after | dinner | in his | chair, Sat ǎ farmer, | ruddy, | fat, and | fair. But this measure is very uncommon. 790. Trochaic Pentameter. The fifth Trochaic species is likewise uncommon. It is composed of five trochees; as, In the dark ǎnd | green ånd | gloomy | vállěy, The same with an additional accented syllable; as, Where the wood is | waving | green ånd | high," This measure is, however, often ambiguous; for by laying an iccent on the first, as well as the third syllable, we may geneally make it a trochaic. 793. Anapastic Dimeter. The next form of our Anapestic verse, is made up of two Anapests; as, hree Anapests. O ye woods, spread your branches ǎpace; To your deepest récéssles I fly; I would hide | with the beasts | of the chase; I would vanish from every eye. This is a very pleasing measure, and much used, both in olemn and cheerful subjects. 795. Anapastic Tetrameter. The fourth kind of the Englisn Anapestic consists of four Anapests. hak redw May I govern my passions with absolute sway; And grow wiser and better ǎs life | wears away. This measure will admit of a short or unaccented syllable at he end; as, On the wärm | cheek of youth, ¡ smiles and rõļses ǎre blending well as for those quoted in the two preceding paragraphs, the thor is indebted to the pen of Henry B. Hirst, Esq., of PhilaIphia. It will be observed, that in each stanza, the first two es are tetrameters, the third pentameters, and the fourth hexaeters. This is the only specimen of Dactylic hexameter or even ntameter verse that the author recollects to have seen. Glad was our | meeting: thy | glittering | bosom I heard, Beating on | mine, like the heart of ǎ | timōrōus | bird; Bright were thine | eyes as the | stars, and their glances wĕre | rådiǎnt ǎs | gleams Falling from | eyes of the | angels, when | singing by | Eden's pur | pūrěǎl streams. Happy ǎs | seraphs were | we, for wě | wander'd ǎ | lōne, Trembling with passionate thrills, when the twilight häd | flown: Even the echo wǎs | silent: our | kisses and whispers of | löve Languish'd un | heard and unknown, like the breath of the blossoming | būds of the grove. Life hǎth its pleasures, but | fading ǎre | they as the ! flowers: Sin hath its | sōrrows, and | sadly wě | turn'd from those bōwers: Bright were the | angels be | hind with their | falchions of MIXED VERSES. 801. English verses generally consist of feet all of one kind, or of one kind with an additional syllable. In this they differ materially from the verses of the ancients, in which feet of different kinds were found mixed together in the same line. For instance, the most common of all their verses, the Latin and Greek hexameter, corresponding in its uses to our heroic pentameter, consisted of dactyls and spondees combined to suit the varying character of the sense; a preponderance of dactyls giving a rapid movement to the verse, suited to light, gay, or beautiful subjects; and a preponderance of spondees, on the contrary, making the movement of the verse slow and solemn. In English verse, this combination of different feet in the same line, has been seldom attempted. In fact, no whole poem of any considerable size, so far as the author is aware, has been constructed of mixed lines throughout. Most of the examples that exist are isolated lines in poems that are otherwise purely Iambic, Trochaic, Anapæstic, or Dactylic. A Spondeo-Dactylic poem, for instance, does not exist in English literature, although there may be examples of Spondeo-Dactylic verses. A few specimens of mixed verses will now be given. 802. The following celebrated lines, from Childe Harold, contain an example of a Trochee ( ~) and a Spondee ( ̄ ̄) both occurring in one line of an Iambic (~~) poem: 803. In the second of the lines which follow, which are in Iambic (~~) metre, occur a Pyrrhic (~~) and a Spondee (~~) Yět lovelly in your strength, | ǎs is | the light Of a | dārk éye | in wom|ăn! Far | ălông From peak to peak, &c. The following is another example of the same: Thặt ăn | weak wings | from får | pursues | your flight. 804. The following is an example of Hexameter verse, com posed of dactyls (~~~) and spondees ( ̄ ̄) alternately: |