alled an _anapestic_ foot. The meter of this poem, then is
_anapestic tetrameter_, varied by an added syllable in most of the
odd-numbered lines and by an iambic foot at the beginning of each
line.

Can you find any other poem in this volume in which the meter is
the same? Can you find such poems in other volumes?

FOOTNOTES:

[11-1] Samuel Woodworth, the author of this familiar song, was an
American, the editor of many publications and the writer of a great many
poems; but no one of the latter is now remembered, except _The Old Oaken
Bucket_.

[11-2] This means that the author remembers fondly the scenes of his
childhood, or remembers the things of which he was fond in his
childhood.

[11-3] As the term is used in the law-books, a person is an _infant_
until he is twenty-one years of age; though, probably the word _infancy_
here means the same as _childhood_.

[11-4] Let us picture a large mill-pond with a race running out of one
side of it past the old-fashioned mill, which has a big wooden water
wheel on the outside of it.

[11-5] The dairy house was probably a low, broad building through which
the water from the stream ran. The milkpans were set on low shelves or
in a trough so that the water could run around them and keep the milk
cool.

[12-6] If he could see the white-pebbled bottom of the well, it must
have been a shallow one, or perhaps merely a square box built around a
deep spring.

[12-7] Water is usually spoken of as an emblem of _purity_, not of
_truth_; but sometimes truth is spoken of as hiding at the bottom of a
well.

[12-8] The curb is the square box usually built around the mouth of the
well to a height of a few feet, to protect the water from dirt.
Sometimes three of the sides are carried up to a height of six or eight
feet, and a roof is built over the whole, making a little house of the
curb. The fourth side is left open, except for two or three feet at the
bottom. In these old wells two buckets were often used. They were
attached to a rope which ran over a wheel suspended from the roof of the
well house. When a bucket was drawn up it was often rested on the low
curb in front, while people drank from it.

[13-9] _Blushing goblet_ alludes to wine or some other liquor that has a
reddish color.

[13-10] Nectar was the drink of the old Greek gods, of whom Jupiter was
the chief.

[13-11] _Situation_ and _plantation_ do not rhyme well, and _situation_
is sc