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	46	ORTHOMETRY.
	(f). Trochaic Hexameter. Normal line, Twelve Syllables There are but few examples of this measure. Holy, | holy, ) holy, | all the | saints a | dore Thee, Casting | down their | golden | crowns a | round the | glassy | sea.                                                             Heber. Here is a specimen of this verse truncated. Love with | rosy | fetter | held us | firmly | bound; Pure un | mixed en | joyment | grateful | here we | found. Bosom | bosom | meeting | 'gainst our | youths we | pressed; Bright the | morn a | rose then | glad to | see us | blessed G. Borrow (g and h). Trochaic Heptameter and Octameter. Normal lines Fourteen and Sixteen Syllables. There are but few symmetrical poems in these measures, although^ they have been freely used by Longfellow, Lord Lytton, Aytoun, and Tennyson in irregular combinations. Tennyson's Locksley Hall and Poe's Raven supply good examples. Cursed | be the | social | wants that | sin a | gainst the | strength of | youth ! Cursed | be the | social | lies that | warp us | from the | living | truth ! Cursed | be the | sickly | forms that | err from | honest | na­ture's rule ! Cursed | be the | gold that | gilds the | straitened | fore­head | of the | fool! Tennyson.