:

"For | resis- | tance I | could fear | none,
But | with twen | ty ships | had done,
What | thou, brave | and hap | py Ver- | non,
Hast | achiev'd | with six | alone.

In fact, _the second and fourth lines_ here stamp the character of the
measure; [Fist] _which is the old seven[-]foot iambic broken into four and
three_, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SYLLABLE AT THE BEGINNING."--_Churchill's New
Gram._, p. 391.

After these observations and criticisms concerning the trochaic order of
verse, I proceed to say, trochaics consist of the following measures, or
metres:--

MEASURE I.--TROCHAIC OF EIGHT FEET, OR OCTOMETER.

_Example I.--"The Raven"--First Two out of Eighteen Stanzas_.

1.
"Once up | -on a | midnight | dreary, | while I | pondered, | weak and
| weary,
Over | _m=any ~a_ | quaint and | _c=ur~io~us_ | volume | of for
| -gotten | lore,
While I | nodded, | nearly | napping, | sudden |-ly there | came a
| tapping,
As of | some one | gently | rapping, | rapping | at my | chamber
| door.
''Tis some | visit |-or,' I | muttered, | 'tapping | at my | chamber
| door--
Only | this, and |nothing | more."

2.
Ah! dis |-tinctly | I re |-member | it was | in the | bleak De
|-cember,
And each | _s=ep~ar~ate_ | dying | ember | wrought its | ghost up
|-on the | floor;
Eager |-ly I | wished the | morrow; | vainly | had I | tried to
| borrow
From my | books sur |-cease of | sorrow--| sorrow | for the | lost Le
|-nore--
For the | rare and | _r=ad~i~ant_ | maiden, | whom the | angels
| name Le |-nore--
Nameless | here for | ever |-more."
EDGAR A. POE: _American Review for February_, 1845.

Double rhymes being less common than single ones, in the same proportion,
is this long verse less frequently terminated with a full trochee, than
with a single long