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ment hovers between these two extremes, and if represented 
graphically as a curve, is found to be a perfect index to the 
emotional quality. The poem may be described as a rendering in 
verse of the sensations of a musician in producing a masterpiece. 
The curve (see Plate) represents five main phases of emotion. 
Stanzas I., II., III., IY. are the overture, with a gradual height- 
ening of emotion. 
Stanzas V., VI., VII. give the supreme mountain-top height of 
delight in creation. The artist is “in heaven,” and was “made 
perfect.” 
Stanza VIII. is heavy with the sadness of farewell. “ The gone 
thing was to go.” 
Stanza IX. gives the comparative altitude (emotionally con- 
sidered) of spiritual comfort : “ There shall never be one lost 
good.” 
Stanzas X., XI., XII. are in the mood of cheerful acquiescence, 
at a point one degree lower than the overture is pitched. 
In Rugby Chapel we have unrhymed anapaestic trimeters, with 
very frequent initial truncation of both unaccented syllables. The 
average number of unaccented syllables to the line is slightly 
under 4, and in the different stanzas ranges from a maximum of 4J 
to a minimum of 3§. Here, again, the curve indicates the emo- 
tional quality. At the highest point, a, there is the happy recol- 
lection of the buoyant cheerfulness of the dead hero ; at the nadir, 
b, there is a pessimistic outlook on a world given over to those 
who “chatter and love and hate,” “achieving nothing.” 
Stanza I. Descriptive of time and place. 
Stanza II. Happy reminiscences of the dead. 
Stanza III. His death — with the sense of loss. 
Stanza IV. Inquiry — “ Where art thou 1 ” 
Stanza V. Assurance that he has a sphere of usefulness else- 
where. 
Stanza VI. A pessimistic outlook on the world. 
Stanza VII. Hope in a few chosen spirits — light in the darkness. 
Stanza VIII. Safe arrival through difficulties of the few. 
Stanza IX. Superior worth of the dead man. 
Stanza X. Belief in the good men of former ages, through him. 
