Andersen. — Classification of Verse. 519 



In the case of a, h, and d most readers would probably make a vocal pause 

 ■on the vowel preceding the unit in question, when a paused and triple unit 

 Avould result : — 



(15«.) a. I heard/ the owl/ scream/ and the cri/ckets cry/. 



b. An/gels are bright/ still/, though the bri/ghtest fell/: 

 d. And yet/ dark night// stran/gles the tra/velling lamp/: 



The vocal pause need be but slight to make the scansion that of (15«). In 

 example c above, " shriek " cannot receive an accent equal to that on 

 " night," or " shriek " would be taken for the verb and not the noun : 

 " night-shriek " is a compound word like " manhood " or "' housetop " ; 

 and it may perhaps be found that " shriek " w^ould in reading receive no 

 more accent than " and," so that the vtnit would l^e an ordinary unstressed 

 unit — 



(15r(.) c. To hear/ a night- /shriek, and ' my fell/ of hair/ 



It may be, therefore, that there is no need for supposing an accented un- 

 stressed unit to exist. It is, however, noted as a possible form. In the 

 following verse it is avoided b}' an alternative scansion : — 



(16.) For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so. 



(Ant. & Cleo., Ill, iii, 34.) 

 This might be scanned, — 



(16a.) For the/ most part//, tho, they / B,ve fool/ish that/are so//. 



But this gives six units, including the doubtful one ; and a better scansion 

 is,— 



(166.) For the most/ part, too//, they are fool/ish that /'are so//. 



Section VI. 



1. Units composed of a single syllable augmented by a pause are now 

 to be considered — that is, " paused units." The paused unit followed by 

 R triple unit has already been dealt with (paragraph 17 et seq. of Section III), 

 and the same preceded by a triple unit (paragraphs 20 and 25 of Section III). 

 To the latter class belong constructions in the old ballads such as the fol- 

 lowing : — 



(1.) «. And it hath stricken the Earl Douglas 

 In/ at the breast/ bane/. 



(" The Hunting of the Cheviot," fytte ii, st. 12.) 



b. And first/ lie has hkt/pit a grave/ tune/, 



And S3Tie he has harpit a gay ; (" Glasgerion," st. 7.) 



c. She's ta'en/ a cake/ o' the b^st/ bread/, 



A stoup/ o' the best/ wine/, (" Fair Annie," st. 13.) 



d. give/ me a shive/ o' your bread/, love/, 



O give me a cup o' your wine ! 



('■ The Jolly Goshawk," st. 32.) 



Here it may. of course, be held that the scansion should be not a triple 

 unit followed by a paused duple, but two duple units, the first ordinary, 

 the second heavy :— 



(la.) c. She's ta'en/ a cake/ o' th?;/ best breadlj. 



d. give/ me a shive/ o' yo'n-/ bread, lovejl. 



Compare these, however, with lines where such scansion is the natural one, 

 and the difference will be seen : — 



(2.) Eneugh/ ye has/ o' ghde/ wheat br'eadjl. 

 And eneugh/ o' the blade-/ red iv'tnejl ; 



(" Johnnie of Braidislee," st. 3.) 



