colon Triftrophon; but if it returns after four lines, it is called Tricolon Tetraftrophon; as when after two greater dactylic alcaic verfes are fubjoined an archilochian iambic and a leffer dactylic alcaic, which is named the Carmen Horatianum, or Horatian verfe, because frequently ufed by Horace; thus, Virtus recludens immeritis mori Cœlum, negatâ tentat iter viâ; Spernit humum fugiente pennâ. Any one of these parts of a poem, in which the different kinds of verfe are comprehended, when taken by itfelf, is called a Strophe, Stanza, or Staff. DIFFERENT kinds of VERSE in HORACE and BUCHANAN. I. ODES and PSALMS of one kind of Verfe. 1. Afclepiadean, See N° 3, page 272. Hor. I. 1. IV. 8. III. 30 -Buch. Pf. 28, 40, 80. 2. Choriambic Alcaic Pentameter, confifting of a fpondee, three choriambufes, and a pyrrychius or iambus: Hor. I. 11. 18. IV. 10. 3. Iambic trimeter, N° 11.-Hor. Epod. 17.-Buch. Pf. 25, 94, 106. 4. Hexameter, N° 1. Hor. Satyres and Epiftles.Buch. Pf. 1, 18, 45, 78, 85, 89, 104, 107, 132, 135. 5. Iambic Dimeter, N° 12.-Buch. Pf. 13, 31, 37, 47, 52, 54, 59, 86, 96, 98, 117, 148, 149, 150. 6. The Greater Dadylic Alcaic, N° 8.-Buch. Pf. 26, 29, 32, 49, 61, 71, 73, 143. 7. Trochaic, confifting of seven trochees and a fyllable; admitting alfo a tribrachys in the uneven places, i. e. in the first, third, fifth, and seventh foot; and in the even places, a tribrachys, fpondee, dactyle, and anapeftus,Buch. Pr. 105, 119, 124, 129. 8. Anapeftic, confifting of four anapeftufes, admitting alfo a fpondee or daftyle; and in the last place, fometimes a tribrachys, amphimăcer, or trochee.--Pf. 113. 9. Anacreontic Iambic, confifting of three iambuses, and a fyllable; in the first foot it has fometimes a spondee or anapeftus, and alfo a tribrachys.-Pf. 131. II. ODES and PSALMS of two kinds of verfe following one another alternately. 1. Glyconian and Afclepiadean, N° 4. and 3.-Hor. I. 3, 3, 19, 36. III. 9, 15, 19, 24, 25, 28. IV. 1, 3. Buch. Pf. 14, 35, 43. 2. Every first line (Dadylico-Trochaic,) confifting of the first four feet of an hexameter verfe, then three trochees or a spondee for the laft; every fecond verfe (1ambic Archilochian) confifting of an iambus or fpondæus, an iambus, a cæfura, and then three trochees. Hor. I. 4. 3. The first line, Hexameter, and the fecond, Alcmanian Daaylic, confifting of the four laft feet of an hexameter. Hor. I. 7, 28. Epod. 12.- -Buch. Pf. 4, 111. 4. Every firft line, Ariftophanic, confifting of a choriambus, and bacchius or amphimacer: Every fecond line, Choriambic Alcaic, confifting of epitrītus fecundus, two choriambufes, and a bacchius. Hor. I. 8. 5. The first line, (Trochaic,) confifting of three trochees and a cæfura; or of an amphimacer and two iambufes. The second line, Archilochian Iambic, No 9. Hor. 11. 18. 6. The firft line, Hexameter; the fecond (DaЯylic Archilochian,) two dactyles and cæfura. Hor. IV. 7.Buch. Pf. 12. 10. 7. The first line, Iambic Trimeter; and the fecond, Iambic Dimeter, N° 11.-Hor. Epod. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, -Buch. Pf. 3, 6, 10, 21, 22, 27, 34, 38, 39, 41, 44, 48, 53, 62, 74, 76, 79, 87, 92, 110, 112, 115, 120, 127, 133, 134, 139, 141. 8. The first line, Iambic Dimeter; the second (Sapphic,) confifts of two da&yles, a cæfura, and four iambuses, ad mitting also a spondeus, &c. But this verfe is commonly divided into two parts; the first, the latter part of a pentameter, N° 2. and the fecond, iambic dimeter, N° 11. Hor. Epod. 11. 9. The first line, Hexameter; the fecond, Iambic Dimeter. Hor. Epod. 14, 15. Buch. Pf. 81. 10. Hexameter, and Iambic Trimeter. Hor. Epod. 16. Buch. Pf. 2, 20, 24, 57, 60, 69, 83, 93, 95, 97, 108, 109, 118, 126, 136, 147. 11. The first line, Sapphic, N° 5. and the fecond Iambic Dimeter, N° 11. Buch. Pf. 8. 12. Sapphic and Glyconian. Buch. Pf. 33, 70, 121, 142. 13. Iambic Trimeter and Pentameter. Buch. Pf. 36, 63. 14. The first line, Hexameter; and the fecond line, the three laft feet of an hexameter, with a long fyllable or two fhort fyllables before. Buch. Pf. 68. 15. Hexameter and Pentameter, or Elegiac verfe. Buch. Pf. 88, 114, 137. 16. The first line, (Trochaic,) three trochees and a fyllable, admitting fometimes a fpondee, tribrachys, &c. The fecond line, Iambic Dimeter, N° 11. Buch. Pf. 100. III. ODES and PSALMS of two kinds of verfe, and three or four lines in each ftanza. 1. The three first lines, Sapphic, and the fourth, Adonian, No 5. Hor. Carm. I. 2, 10, 12, 20, 22, 25, 30, 32, 38. II. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 16. III. 8, 11, 14, 18, 20, 22, 27. IV. 2, 6, 11. Carmen Secul.-Buch. Pf. 5, 17, 51, 55, 65, 67, 72, 90, 101, 103. 2. The three firft lines, Afclepiadean, and the fourth, Glyconian. Hor. Carm. I. 6, 15, 24, 33. II. 12. III. 10, 16. IV. 5, 12. Buch. Pf. 23, 42, 75, 99, 102, 144. 3. The two first lines, Ionic trimeter, confifting of three Ionici minores; the third line, Ionic tetrameter, having one Ionicus minor more. Hor. III. 12. W 4. The two first lines have four trochees, admitting, in the fecond foot, a fpondee, dactyle, &c. The third line, the fame; only wanting a fyllable at the end. Buch. Pf. 66. 5. The three first lines, Glyconian, N° 4. admitting alfo a fpondee or iambus in the first foot; the fourth line, Pherecratian, N° 6. Buch. Pf. 116, 122, 128. IV. ODES and PSALMS of three kinds of verfe, and three or four lines in each stanza. 1. The two firft lines, Afclepiadean, N° 3. the third line, Pherecratian, N° 6. and the fourth, Glyconian, N° 4. Hor. Carm. I. 5, 14, 21, 23. III. 7, 13. IV. 13.-Buch. Pf. 9, 64, 84, 130. 2. The first two lines, the Greater Dadylic Alcais, N° 8. The third, Archilochian Iambic, N° 9. The fourth, the Leffer Alcaic, No 10. Hor. Carm. I. 9, 16, 17, 26, 27, 29, 31, 34, 35, 37. II. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20. III. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 21, 23, 26, 29. IV. 4, 9, 14, 15. Buch. Pf. 7, 11, 15, 19, 30, 46, 50, 56, 58, 77, 82, 91, 123, 125, 140, 146. 3. The first line, Glyconian; the fecond, Afclepiadean; the third a fpondee, three choriambuses, and an iambus or pyrrhichius. Buch. Pf. 16. 4. The first line, Hexameter; the fecond, Iambic dimeter ; and the third, two dactyles and a fyllable; Hor. Epod. 13. Buch. Pf. 138. Sometimes the two laft verses are joined in one, or inverted; as, Buch. Pf. 145. ENGLISH VERSE. The quantity of fyllables in English Verfe is not precifely afcertained. With regard to this we are chiefly directed by the ear. Our monofyllables are generally either long or fhort, as occafion requires. And in words of two or more fyllables, the accented fyllable is always long. Of English verfe there are two kinds, one named Rhyme, and the other Blank verfe. In rhyme the lines are ufually connected two and two, fometimes three and three in the final fyllables. Two lines following one another thus connected, are called a Couplet, three lines, a Triplet. In blank verfe fimilarity of found in the final fyllables is carefully avoided. In measuring moft kinds of English verfe, we find long and fhort fyllables fucceeding one another alternately; and therefore the accents fhould reft on every fecond fyllable. The feet by which English verfe is commonly meafured, are either Iambic, i. e. confifting of a fhort and a long fyllable; as, alōft, create; or Trochaic, i. e. confifting of a long and a fhort fyllable; as, bōly, lofty. In verfes of the former kind the accents are to be placed on the even fyl lables; in the latter, on the odd fyllables. But the meafure of a verse in English is most frequently determined by its number of fyllables only, without dividing them into particular feet. I. IAMBIC MEASURE Comprifes verfes, 1. Of four fyllables, or of two feet; as, The monarch hears. Dryden. 2. Of fix fyllables, or of three feet ; as, Aloft in awful state, The godlike hero fat. Dryden. 3. Of eight fyllables, or of four feet; as, While dangers hourly round us rife, No caution guards us from furprife. Fran. Horate. 4. Of ten fyllables, or of five feet, which is the common measure of heroic and tragic poetry; as, Poetic fields encompass me around, And ftill I feem to tread on Claffic ground; That not a mountain rears its head unfung. Addison. |