(3) The eight-line stave in the amphiambic tetrameter, or tetrameter catalectic,1 is a noble measure. Examples : Then blame not the bard if | in pleasure's | soft dream, | &c.—MOORE. I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn. -Scott. There are also eight-line staves in fives, and in fives and sixes. These are dactylic. Examples : A dactylic stave in of lines, was used by Over the mountains, -1 And over the waves, | Under the fountains, And | under the graves, &c. sixes, fives, and fours, varying in the number Hood with great effect in his Bridge of Sighs :— There are many other varieties, but the rules already given will probably enable the student to name and classify them as he falls in with them. PINDARIC MEASURES. 26. These hold an intermediate position between stanzas and continuous verse. The Pindaric ode is in three parts-strophe, antistrophe, and epode; which may be repeated as often as the theme requires. The strophe varies in length, seldom containing more than twenty-eight or fewer than fourteen lines. The antistrophe corre sponds to the strophe line for line. The epode may be either longer or shorter than the strophe; each repetition of it must agree, line for line, with the original. Gray's ode, The Bard, conforms to these rules; the strophe and antistrophe (each of fourteen lines), and the epode (of twenty lines), are repeated thrice. Congreve also observes the rules (see above, p. 361). The pindariques of Cowley and Dryden are reducible to no rule; they are divided into an arbitrary number of strophes; varying in length from twenty-eight to fourteen lines; the lines are of arbitrary length, and the arrangement of the rimes is arbitrary. 1 A line which falls short by one syllable of the full measure of four amphiambuses, is so designated. INDEX. Abbreviations :-Bp. for bishop; Abp. for Archbishop; flor. for floruit (flourished); n. for note. When only one date is given it is that of PAGE 25, 47 Abingdon, Chronicle of . 38 351, 43 Anselm, St. (1033-1109), 24, 40, 52 567 Aquinas, St. Thomas 27, 52, 263 Arbuthnot, Dr. John (1675- 2 34 462 382 Akenside, Mark (1721-1770). Albertus Magnus. Armstrong, John (1708-1792) 23 371, 374 186, 217 391 471 452 Arnold, Matthew. Alcuin (732-804) 2, 3, 8 Aldhelm (Bp.), (died 709) Aldred, Abp. of York 50 the name Aldrich, Dr. H. (1647-1710). 369 Alexandre, Roman de Alexandrine Metre, origin of Alford, Mich. (1587-1652). Alfred of Beverley His Translations, 17 Allegorical Poetry Arnold, Dr. Thomas (1795- Arthur, 57; Legend of. Ascham, Roger (1515-1568) 170, 234 66 67 182 Alfred, King (849-901). 1731) 67 Augustine, St. Allegorical Style, rise of. II, 16 Aubrey, John (1625 1700) note. Aungerville, Rich. de (Bp.) Atterbury, F. (Bp.) (1662- 356, 370, 410 circ. 42 92 Aurungzebe, tragedy of. CHA PAGE Chatham, Lord (1708-1778) . 398 Cheke, Sir John 169 Cowley, Abr. (1618-1667). 275-9, 549, 551 His Davideis, 276; Poem Cowper, Wm. (1731-1800) 387, 545 Coxe, William (1747-1829) 584 368 431 91 Craig, Isa. 498 472 Cranmer, (1489-1556) Crashaw, Rich. (circa 1650) |