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MEASURES OF VERSE. 43 |
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A beautiful combination of verses of this kind but slightly varying is seen in Shelley's Prometheus.
In the world unknown, Sleeps a voice unspoken ; By thy stop alone, Can its rest be broken, Child of ocean ? |
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Shelley. |
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Again— |
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Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh ;
Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. |
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Baring Gould. |
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Fill the bumper fair !
Every drop we sprinkle On the brow of care
Smoothes away a wrinkle.
Moore. |
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(d). Trochaic Tetrameter.
 This measure is sufficiently lengthy for continuous composition, and seems to be a favourite with all our modern poets. Longfellow's Hiawatha, a poem of upwards of five thousand lines, is composed in it in unrhymed verse. Tennyson and Shelley also furnish numerous examples, chiefly with symmetrical and truncated verses intermingled. |
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