syllable counted as a foot. The species of measure is,
however, to be reckoned the same, though catalectic. By Lindley Murray, and
a number who implicitly re-utter what he teaches, the verse of _six
trochees_, in which are _twelve syllables_ only, is said "to be _the
longest_ Trochaic line that our language admits."--_Murray's Octavo Gram._,
p. 257; _Weld's E. Gram._, p. 211. The examples produced here will
sufficiently show the inaccuracy of their assertion.

_Example II.--"The Shadow of the Obelisk."--Last two Stanzas._

"Herds are | feeding |in the | Forum, | as in | old E | -vander's
| time:
Tumbled | from the | steep Tar |_-peian_ | _every_ | pile that
| sprang sub |-lime.
Strange! that | what seemed | most in |-constant | should the | most a
| -biding | prove;
Strange! that |what is | hourly | moving | no mu |-tation | can re
|-move:
Ruined | lies the | cirque! the | _chariots_, | long a |-go, have
| ceased to | roll--
E'en the | Obe |-lisk is | broken |--but the | shadow | still is
| whole.

9.

Out a |--las! if | _mightiest_ | empires | leave so | little | mark be
|-hind,
How much | less must | heroes | hope for, | in the | wreck of | human
| kind!
Less than | e'en this | darksome | picture, | which I | tread be
|-neath my | feet,
Copied | by a | lifeless | moonbeam | on the | pebbles | of the
| street;
Since if | Caesar's | best am |-bition, | living, | was, to | be re
|-nowned,
What shall | Cassar | leave be |-hind him, | save the | shadow | of a
| sound?"
T. W. PARSONS: _Lowell and Carter's "Pioneer,"_ Vol. i, p. 120.

_Example III.--"The Slaves of Martinique."--Nine Couplets out of
Thirty-six._

"Beams of | noon, like | burning | lanc