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The variations (6), (7), and (8) are of very infrequent occurrence ; they 

 occur chiefly in isolated verses, not in complete stanzas. There appears 

 to be a repugnance for an abrupt second half-verse to follow a half-verse 

 wnth ordinary duple or triple opening. No example of No. (6) has been 

 noted ; the following verse shows the structure, but is rendered imperfect 

 by the triple unit : — 



(6.) The draw/bridge falls/ — they hur/ry out/ — clat/ters each plank/ 

 and swin/giim' cham/, 



[Scoll, " Cadyow Castle," stanza U.) 



The verse would be conformable were the " each " omitted : — 



(6«.) The draw/bridge falls/ — they hur/ry out/— clat/ters plank/ 

 and swin/ging chain/, 



The two following are quoted as examples of (7) : — 



(7o.) The year's/ at the spring/ and day's/ at the morn,' ; inom/ing's 

 at seven/ ; the hill-/side's dew-pearled/ ; 

 The lark's/ on the wing/ ; the snail's/ on the thorii/ : God's/ ux 

 his heaven/ — all's right/ with the world/. 



(R. Browniwi, from " Pippa Passes.") 



The third and seventh units of both verses are defective in being duple, 

 but that is immaterial : the type is presented. The following is nearer 

 type, though further from poetry ; it is metrically defective only in the 

 sixth unit : — 



(lb.) As gay/ as a lark/ and as blythe/ as a bee/, hand/some, gen/erous, 

 sprigh/tly, and young/ ; 



(Cross, " By goles, I never will many.") 



No. (8) is represented by the following :• — 



(8.) I have read/ her roman/ces of dame/ and knight/ ; she/ was my 

 prin/cess, my pride/, my pet/, 



(A. L. Gordon, " The Romance of Britomart.") 



Gordon's poem contains several examples of the metre, but all are defective 

 in admitting two duple units — the fourth and eighth in the examples quoted. 

 The construction shown in (9), (10), and (11) is more frequently met with : — 



(9.) When love/ly wo/ man stoops/ to fol/ly, and finds/ too late/ that men/ 

 betray/, 

 What charm/ can soothe/ her me/lancho/ly ? What art/ can wash/ 

 her guilt/ away ?/ 



(O. Goldsmith, " Stanzas on Woman.") 



(10.) How long/ didst thou think/ that his si/lence was slum/ber ? When 

 the wind/ waved his gar/ment, how oft/ didst thou start ?/ 

 How ma/ny long days/ and long weeks/ didst thou num/ber, ere he 

 fa/ded before/ tliee, the friend/ of thy heart ?/ 



(Sir W. Scoll, '• Hclvellyn," part stanza 3.) 



(11.) Of the mail-/cover'd ba/rons, who prou/dly to bat/tie led their vas/ 

 sals from Eu/ropo to Pa/lestine's plain/, 

 The escu/tcheon and shield/, which with e/verj- blast ra/ttlc, are the 

 on/ly sad ves/tiges now/ that remain/. 



(Lord Byron, " Ou leaving Newstead Abbey," stanza 2.) 



The blending of (10) and (11) is shown in the following, where it is curious 

 to note how the humorous writer changes the metre from duple to triple : — 



(11a.) " When wo/man," as Gold/smith declares/, " stoops to fol/ly, and 

 finds/ out too late/ that false rnan/ can betray "/. 

 She is apt/ to look dis/mal, and grow/ melan-cho/ly, and, in short/, 

 to be an/ything ra/ther than gay/. 



