s kin | -dled from | above,
Spreads wide | her arms | of u | -niver | -sal love;
And, still | enlarg'd | as she | receives | the grace,
Includes | cr~e=a | -tion in | her close | embrace.
Behold | a Chris | -tian! and | without | the fires
The found | -_~er ~of_ | that name | alone | inspires,
Though all | accom | -plishment, | all knowl | -edge meet,
To make | the shin | -ing prod | -igy | complete,
Whoev | -er boasts | that name-- | behold | a cheat!"
COWPER: _Charity; Poems_, Vol. i, p. 135.

_Example VI.--To London_.

"Ten right | -eous would | have sav'd | a cit | -y once,
And thou | hast man | -y right | -eous.--Well | for thee--
That salt | preserves | thee; more | corrupt | -ed else,
And there | -fore more | obnox | -ious, at | this hour,
Than Sod | -om in | her day | had pow'r | to be,
For whom | God heard | his Abr' | -ham plead | in vain."
IDEM: _The Task_, Book iii, at the end.

This verse, the iambic pentameter, is the regular English _heroic_--a
stately species, and that in which most of our great poems are composed,
whether epic, dramatic, or descriptive. It is well adapted to rhyme, to the
composition of sonnets, to the formation of stanzas of several sorts; and
yet is, perhaps, the only measure suitable for blank verse--which latter
form always demands a subject of some dignity or sublimity.

The _Elegiac Stanza_, or the form of verse most commonly used by elegists,
consists of four heroics rhyming alternately; as,

"Thou knowst | how trans | -port thrills | the ten | -der breast,
Where love | and fan | -cy fix | their ope | -ning reign;
How na | -ture shines | in live | -lier col | -ours dress'd,
To bless | their un | -ion, and | to grace | their train."
SHENSTONE: _British Poets_, Vol. vii, p. 106.

Iambic verse is seldom continued perfectly pure through a long succession
of lines. Among its most frequent diversifications, are the following; and
others may perhaps be noticed hereafter:--

(1.) The first foot is often varied by a substitutional trochee; as,

"_Bacchus_, | that first | from out | the pur | -ple grape
_Crush'd the_ | sweet poi | -son of | mis-=us | -~ed wine,
_After_ | the Tus | -can mar | -iners | transform'd,
_Coasting_ | the Tyr | -rhene shore, | ~as th~e | winds list_~ed_,
On Cir | -ce's isl | -and fell. | Who knows | not Cir_c~e_,
The daugh | -ter of |