The one that follows might be scanned like the second:

Woven in círcles: théy | that héard | it síghed.

But they harmonise perfectly well with the regular trochaic verses of the passage, and such irregularities may be allowed occasionally, when there is no harshness in them.

We come now to trochaic verses of five feet. They are not very often used, and are generally mixed with other measures.

Léafless are the | trées; their | púrple | bránches
Spréad them sélves a|bróad, like | réefs of | córal,
Rising | sílent

In the réd séa | of the winter | súnset.
From the hundred | chimneys | of the village,
Like the áfreet | in the Arábian | stóry,
Smoky columns

Tówer a lóft in to the ❘ áir of ❘ ámber.

At the | window | winks the | flickering | fírelight;
Hére and there the lámps of | évening | glimmer,
Sócial wátch-fires

Answering | one another | through the darkness.
Ón the hearth the | lighted | lógs are | glówing,
Ánd, like | Áriel | ín the | clóven | píne-tree,
Fór its fréedom

Gróans and sighs the | áir im prísoned | ín them.

LONGFELLOW.

Trochaic verses of five feet with an additional accented syllable are very rare. The following example is taken from Poe.

On the bosom of the | pálpi|táting | áir.

The Bells.

The accent of the first foot is very weak, and the third foot is a pyrrhic. The movement of the whole verse is, however, trochaic.

Trochaic verses of six feet are very little used. Lord Tennyson furnishes us with an example of one, strongly marked.

Púrple | gáuzes, | gólden | házes, | líquid | mázes.
The Vision of Sin.

Trochaic verses of six feet sometimes take an additional accented syllable as in the lines which follow.

Lét us | swear an | óath and | kéep it with an | équal | mind,
In the hóllow | Lótos-lánd to | live and | líe re clined

Ón the hills like | góds to géther | cáreless | of man|kínd.
TENNYSON, The Lotos-eaters.

Trochaic verses of seven feet exist, but are not frequently met with. Here is an example of them.

And when others | fléd from | tówn to |láke and | móor and |

mountain

Í have | láid my | trouble down beside the | Témple | fountain. Godfrey TURNER.

Trochaic verses of seven feet with an accented syllable added are not unfrequently used in ballads. Lord Tennyson's 'Locksley Hall' is composed in verse of this measure. The example given here is taken from Longfellow.

In the market-pláce of | Brúges | stands the | bélfry | óld and | brówn; Thrice con súmed and thríce re|búilded, stíll it | watches | 6'er the town.

Ás the | súmmer | mórn was | bréaking], ón that | lófty | tówer I |

stood,

And the world thréw | óff the | dárkness, like the | weeds of | widow hood.

Thick with towns and ❘ hámlets | stúdded, and with | stréams and] vápours gray, Like a shield em bóssed with silver], róund and | vást the lándscape | láy.

Át my | féet the | cíty | slúmbered. Fróm its | chimneys, hére and| thére,

Wreaths of snow-white | smoke as cénding | vánished |, ghost-like|, ínto áir.

Nót a sound róse | from the | cíty | at that | éarly | mórning | hóur, Bút I heard a héart of | íron | béating | in the | ancient | tówer. From their nésts beneath the | ráfters | sáng the| swallows | wild and high, And the world, be|néath me | sléeping], séemed more | distant | thán the | ský. The Belfry of Bruges.

Trochaic verses of eight feet do not abound, but they are to be met with now and then. The verses of this measure quoted below are mixed with trochaic verses of seven feet and a half.

Once upon a | mídnight | dréary|, while I|póndered], wéak and | weary,

Over | mány a | quáint and | cúrious | vólume of for|gólten | lóre; While I nódded], néarly | nápping], súdden|ly there | cáme a | táp

ping,

As of some one | géntly | rápping | rápping. at my | chámber |

dóor.

POE.

V

ANAPESTIC VERSE

This measure has been used by English poets in verses of different lengths, but not so extensively as the iambic and trochaic measures.

Monometers, or verses of one foot, are rare, and to be found only in short lyrical poems, mixed with other verses, as in the following examples.

"Hearts of oak!

our captains cried! when each gun

From its adamantine lips

Spread a death-shade round the ships,

Like the hurricane eclipse

Of the sun.

Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er their grave!

While the billow mournful rolls,

And the mermaid's song condoles,

Singing glory to the souls

Of the brave!

CAMPBELL.

Anapæstic verses of two feet, though less rare than the preceding, are not often used except in lyrical poetry and mixed with other measures.

form of verse.

Here is a specimen of this

In the verses just quoted some of the feet are not anapæsts. As pyrrhics, trochees, spondees, anapæsts, and