gs | the star |-ing owl, _To-who_;
To-whit, | to-who, | a mer | -ry note,
While greas | -y Joan | doth keel | the pot."
--SHAKSPEARE: _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act v, Sc. 2.

_Example V.--Puck's Charm._

[_When he has uttered the fifth line, he squeezes a juice on Lysander's
eyes_.]

"On the ground,
_Sleep sound_;
I'll apply
To your eye,
Gentle | lover, | remedy.
When thou wak'st,
_Thou tak'st_
True delight
In the sight
Of thy | former | lady's eye." [508]
IDEM: _Midsummer-Night's Dream_, Act iii, Sc. 2.

ORDER II.--TROCHAIC VERSE.

In Trochaic verse, the stress is laid on the odd syllables, and the even
ones are short. Single-rhymed trochaic omits the final short syllable, that
it may end with a long one; for the common doctrine of Murray, Chandler,
Churchill, Bullions, Butler, Everett, Fowler, Weld, Wells, Mulligan, and
others, that this chief rhyming syllable is "_additional_" to the real
number of feet in the line, is manifestly incorrect. One long syllable is,
in some instances, used _as a foot_; but it is one or more _short
syllables_ only, that we can properly admit _as hypermeter_. Iambics and
trochaics often occur in the same poem; but, in either order, written with
exactness, the number of feet is always the number of the long syllables.

_Examples from Gray's Bard._

(1.)

"_Ruin | seize thee,| ruthless | king_!
Confu | -sion on | thy ban |-ners wait,
Though, fann'd | by Con | -quest's crim | -son wing.
They mock | the air | with i | -dle state.
_Helm, nor | hauberk's | twisted | mail_,
Nor e'en | thy vir | -tues, ty | -rant, shall | avail."

(2.)

"_Weave the | warp, and | weave the | woof_,
The wind | -ing-sheet | of Ed | -ward's race.
Give am | -ple room, | and verge | enough,
The char | -acters | of hell | to trace.
_Mark the |year, and | mark the | night_,
When Sev | -ern shall | re-ech | -o with | affright."
"_The Bard, a Pindaric Ode_;"
_British Poets_, Vol. vii, p. 281 and 282.

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1.--Trochaic verse without the final short syllable, is the same as
iambic would be without the _initial_ short syllable;--it being quite
plain, that iambic, so changed, _becomes trochaic, and_ is iambic no
longer. But trochaic, retrenched of its last short syllable, is trochaic
still; and can no otherwise be made iambic, than by the