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seems intiiiitely superior to either of the two — 



(726.) ((. With breasts/ palpit/ating/ and wings/ refurled/, 

 h. With breasts/ palpit/ating/and wings/ refurled/. 



These seem intolerable. The pause in (72f/) is hardly perceptible, it is so 

 well filled, with the consonantal termination of " breasts," and. the word 

 " palpitating " receives its natural accents. It has been held, that poets 

 have intentionally set words into places in the rhythm where the stress and 

 accent will come into conflict, with the object of overriding the prose accent. 

 This has palpably been done by Shelley in " The Sensitive Plant " and 

 " Epipsychiclion " : — 



(73.) a. For each one was 'interpenetrated (S.P., Pt. i, 1. 06.) 



With the light and the odour its neighbour shed, 

 h. By Love, of light and motion : one intense 



Diffusion, one sei'ene Omn"! presence, (Ep-- 9-t- 95.) 



He has put his intention beyond doubt by riming with the misaccented 

 words : but such instances are rare, and in the majority of cases where the 

 words occur within the verse it is certainly preferable to suppose the poet 

 intended to vary the metre rather than the pronunciation of the word. 

 As has been seen, two-syllabled words accented on the second syllable, 

 which appear to be in a state of accent-fluctuation, will allow accent on 

 the first svllable instead of on the second, and consecjuently on both syllables. 

 8uch words are at times found in apposition, as in Milton's verses — 



(74.) and from despair 



Thus high uplifted heijond hope, aspires 

 Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue (P-L-, ii, ", 8.) 



And even here it will be found that the first " beyond " retains somewhat 



of its syntactic accent on the second syllable whilst the first bears the 



rhythmic stress. The following is perhaps doubtful : — 



(74a.) Goodness infinite. Goodness immense ! (P.L , xii, 469.) 



25. In the great majority of cases where paused and triple units come 

 together, the former precedes the latter : tlif apparently reverse construc- 

 tion Avas considered in paragraph 20. In the following verse the triple 

 unit precedes : — 



(75,) n. and some I see 



That twofold balls and treble sceptres carry : 

 Yiov/rihle sight !/ Nmo/ I see/ 'tis true/ ; 

 For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me, 



(Macb., IV,'i, 122.) 



h. Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taimt my faults 



With such/ full li/cense as both/ truth/ and mii/li^e 

 Have power to utter, (Ant. & Cleo., I, ii, 113.) 



In a, a doubt can hardly enter that a paused unit succeeds a triple ; many 

 may prefer to scan h — 



(75«.) b. With oUch/ full li/cense as/ both truth/ ;,nd -mk/iice 

 —suppressing the stress on " as " and giving " both " its syntactic accent 

 and " truth " its stress. Even with this scansion I think it waU be found, 

 in reading aloud, that a vocal pause will be made between " both " and 

 " truth." 



26. The question is. seeing that triple units are ineradicable from what 

 is called '" two-syllabled " verse — that the two-syllabled units in such verse 

 are constantly replaced by units of three syllables — are these three-syllabled 

 units intrusions ? Are thev not rather incontrovertible assertions that 



