Andersen. — Claasif ration of Ve>\^e. 517 



It is immaterial for the purposes of the analysis here attempted which read- 

 ing be adopted : it is only desired to show that the various units of the 

 three scansions are possible — that is, units with two syllables, the first 

 unaccented, the second bearing a stress ; units with three syllables, the 

 third bearing the stress ; units of a pause and a single stressed syllable ; 

 units of two syllables, neither accented nor stressed ; units of two syllables, 

 the first accented, the second stressed. The last-named may be called 

 " heavy duple units." 



3. There is a variation of the triple unit when, as in the duple unit, 

 an accented syllable precedes the stressed syllable : — 



(8.) a. Show/ you sweet Ode//sar's wounds/, poor poor// dumb months//. 



(Jul. Caes., Ill, ii, 229.) 



h. Wlio/ you all kn'noH are hon/oura/ble men/ : 



(Jul. Caes., Ill, ii, 129). 



c. Lis/ tew great thrngsjl : Brii/t^i^ ^i^<i Cas/sius' 



(Jul. Caes., IV, i, 41.) 



This form of the unit is mostly found in triple units following broken units : 

 it may be called, as suggested, the " heavy triple unit." In the following 

 example an alternative scansion presents itself — 



(8ff.) One/ do I iier/sonate of/ Lord TV/mon's frame/, 



— where a triple unit with suppressed stress is followed by a heavy duple 

 unit. This scansion, however, creates a new form of unit, the light or un- 

 accented and unstressed triple ; and as this form is exceedingly uncommon, 

 and when found can as easily be resolved into two other common units — 

 the light duple and heavy triple — there is no necessity for such scansion 

 a,s is presented in (8a). 



4. The heavy duple unit, or duple unit in which the first syllable is 

 accented and the second stressed, occurs with great frequency, not only 

 following hght units, or units with suppressed stress, as in examples (6) 

 in paragraph 2 above, but following ordinary or other heavy units. These 

 in classic nomenclature are known as " spondees." The following are 

 examples : — 



(9.) a. I'p/ then crew/ the red/ red c.ckj!, (" Wife of Usher's Well," st. 8.) 



h. The good/ lohyte brede,lj the good/ red loynell. 

 And thereto/ the fvne/ die hfuwnjl. 



' ('' A Lytell Geste of Eobyn Hode," fytte 7, st. 40.) 



c. Him the almighty Power 



Hiirl'd hf'odlllong fla/ming from,' th' ethe/real sky, (P-L., i, 45.) 



d. I know/ young Ubodslj look/ for a time/ of rest/. 



(ilacb., IV, iii, 262). 



e. Yet he loves Antony : 

 Hh ! hearts, jl f'tigues, /(//gures, scribes/, bards, p'*//ets, can/not 

 Th'ink, speak'!, cast, wr'itejl, S:ng, nhmljhev — ho!/ 



His love to Antony. (Ant. & Cleo., Ill, ii, 16.) 



/. No mure/ hfes, deathsjl, loves, hajltveds, pea/ces, wars !/ 



{Browning, " Sordello," iii, 140.) 



As these examples show, the heavy units are the result of the juxtaposition 

 of words bearing comparative equal syntactic accent, such as nouns and 

 their qualifying adjectives, duplicated or intensified monosyllabic adjectives, 

 and so on. Incidentally, it may be noted that when a monosyllabic adjec- 

 tive precedes a two-syllabled noun accented on the first syllal)le a false 



