660 Transactions. 



Variation 1, Sub variation (a) : — 



(12.) And is/ she dead ?/ — and did/ they dare/ obey/ my fren/zy's jea/lous 

 vik/ving ? 

 My wrath/ but doom'd/ my own/ despair/ : the sword/ that smote/ 

 hor's o'er/ me vfa,/vijuj. 



(Lord Byron, " Herod's Lament for Mariamne," stanza 2.) 



Variation 2, Sub variation {a) : — 



(13.) a. Awake !/ my love/, the sun's/ bright ray/, hills/ and val/leys 

 now/ a,Aor/ning. 



(T. Blake, " Good Morning," opening.) 



b. Oh may/ it prove/ for Scot/land's good !/ bon/nie lad/die, 

 High/l^'ii'^l lad/c?ie, 

 But why/ so drench/ our glens/ with blood ?/ bon/nie lad/die. 

 High/land \a,d/die. 



(James Uogg, " Highland Laddie," last stanza.) 



Variation 3, Subvariation (a) : — 



(14.) Her voice/ did qui/ver as/ we ^a^r/ted, yet knew/ I not/ that heart/ 

 was iiro/Jcen 

 From whence/ it came/, and 1/ depar/<ec? heed/ing not/ the 

 words/ then spo/A;e?i. 

 '••^_ I 3 (Shelley, " On Fanny Godwin.") 



Example (14) is prosodically imperfect in the second half- verse of the second 

 verse, which begins abruptly instead of ordinarily. This metre is, however, 

 very rarely met with. 



8. Group C. — This differs from Group B in one miit only, the eighth 

 or last. This unit has a douhle-iemmine ending. It is seldom met with 

 except in humorous verse, and even then the perfect form occurs only in 

 occasional verses. 



Variation 1, Subvariations (c) and {h) : — 



(15.) And e'en/ as Macbeth/, when devi/sing the death/ of his King/, 

 heard " the ve/ry stones prate/ of his where /abouts " ; 

 So this shock/mg bad wife/ heard a voice/ all her life/ crpng " Mur/ 

 der ! " resound/ from the cu/shion — or theve/ abouts. 

 (iJ. H. Barharn, " Ingoldsby Legends " : "A Lay of St. Gengulphus," stanra 73.) 



Variation 3, Subvariation (6) : — 



(16.) Her li/ttle red eyes/ were deep-set/ in their so/cket-holes, her gown-/ 

 tail was turn'd/ up, and tuck'd/ through the ^o/cket-holes ; 



(if. II. Barharn, " Look at the Clock," seen. 1.) 



Variation 4, Subvariation (c) : — 



(17.) And a ten/derer le/veret Ro/bin had ne/ver ate ; so, in af/ter times, 

 oft/ he was wont/ to &&&e/verate. 



{R. B. Barharn, " The Witches' Frolic") 



9. These three Groups, A, B, and C, comprise Division 1 of the Romance 

 metre. Division II has also three groups, with their variations and sub- 

 variations exactly as in Division I. The two divisions are distinguished 

 by the first unit of the verse. All ordinary duple, triple, or quadruple 

 openings belong to Division I ; all abrupt openings to Division II. The 

 former therefore contains all so-called iambic, anapestic, and amphibrachic 

 measures ; the latter all trochaic and dactylic. As in the latter division the 

 first units of the verses contain only one syllable in all instances, this divi- 

 sion does not exhibit the same amount of subvariation. One or two 

 examples will suffice. 



Division II, Group A, Variation 1, Subvariation (a) : — 



(18.) Aske/ me why/ I send/ you hero/ this sweet/ Infan/ta of/ the yeere ?/ 

 Aske/ me why/ 1 send/ to you/ this Prim/rose thus/ bepearl'd/ with 



dew ?/ 



(llen-ick, " The Primrose," stanza 1.) 



