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Lost those subdivisions appear at first sight very limited, the further 

 subdivisions of Division 1 of the Ballad may be shown : — 



Division 1 of Class I, Ballad. 

 (a.) Continuous. 

 (].) Long Verse. (Tennyson's " Locksley Hall") 

 (2.) Split— " ' 



{a.) Ordinary (iambic). (Butler's " Hudibras.") 

 (h.) Abrupt (trochaic). (Shelley's " Lines written 

 Euganean Hills.") 

 (3.) Trisyllabic. (Goldsmith's " The Retaliation.") 



(b.) Stanzaic. 



among the 



IT. 



