the sun? | whose charm | -~ed cup
Whoev | -er tast | -ed, lost | his up | -right shape,
And down | -ward fell | _=int~o_ a grov | -elling swine."
MILTON: _Comus; British Poets_, Vol. ii, p. 147.

(2.) By a synaeresis of the two short syllables, an anapest may sometimes be
employed for an iambus; or a dactyl, for a trochee. This occurs chiefly
where one unaccented vowel precedes an other in what we usually regard as
separate syllables, and both are clearly heard, though uttered perhaps in
so quick succession that both syllables may occupy only half the time of a
long one. Some prosodists, however, choose to regard these substitutions as
instances of trissyllabic feet mixed with the others; and, doubtless, it is
in general easy to make them such, by an utterance that avoids, rather than
favours, the coalescence. The following are examples:--

"No rest: | through man | _-y a dark_ | and drear | -y vale
They pass'd, | and man | _-y a re_ | -gion dol | -orous,
_O'er man_ | _-y a fro_ | -zen, man | _-y a fi_ | _-ery Alp_."
--MILTON: _P. L._, B. ii, l. 618.

"Rejoice | ye na | -tions, vin | -dicate | the sway
Ordain'd | for com | -mon hap | -piness. | Wide, o'er
The globe | terra | _-queous, let_ | Britan | _-nia pour_
The fruits | of plen | -ty from | her co | _-pious horn_."
--DYER: _Fleece_, B. iv, l. 658.

"_Myriads_ | of souls | that knew | one pa | -rent mold,
See sad | -ly sev | er'd by | the laws | of chance!
_Myriads_, | in time's | peren | _-nial list_ | enroll'd,
Forbid | by fate | to change | one tran | _-sient glance!_"
SHENSTONE: _British Poets_, Vol. vii, p. 109.

(3.) In plays, and light or humorous descriptions, the last foot of an
iambic line is often varied or followed by an additional short syllable;
and, sometimes, in verses of triple rhyme, there is an addition of two
short syllables, after the principal rhyming syllable. Some prosodists call
the variant foot, in die former instance, an _amphibrach_, and would
probably, in the latter, suppose either an _additional pyrrhic_, or an
amphibrach with still a _surplus syllable_; but others scan, in these
cases, by the iambus only, calling what remains after the last long
syllable _hypermeter_; and this is, I think, the better way. The following
examples show these and some other variations from pure iambic measure:--

_Example I.--Grief._

"Each sub | st~ance ~of