SHAKESPEARE cses not only the iambic, but the trochaic measure. As for example, the trochaic dimeter brachycatalectic, commonly called the ithyphallic, consisting of three trochees.

Bacche | Bacche | Bacche
whére haft | thou been síster. Macb.

The trochaic dimeter catalectic ; a sort of verse Aristophanes was fond of, when he ridi. “ Why, then let grievous, ghaftly, gaping wounds « Untwine the fifters three: come, Atropos, I say."

In King Henry V. Act III.
PiA. “ Fortune is Bardolp's foe, and frowns on him ;

“ For he hath ftoln a pax, and hanged muft a be ;
“ Damn'd death! let gallows gape for dog, let man

free.”

Thus 'tis manifest at first fight that it should be printed. -muft a be-this mode of expression is used now in many parts of England. And Phaer thus renders Virgil. VI, 590.

Prob Jupiter ! ibit
Hic, ait, et noftris illuferit advena regnis ?

“ O God (quoth she) and shall a go • Indede ? and shall a foute me thus within my king

“ doms, so? B. Johnson. Poetaster, Act III. Sc. II.

6 Hor. “ Death! will a leve me.

These alterations and hints may at present be sufficient.

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Nõně | būr něq' | aūre | um

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3 When the báttle's | lóft and won. Macb.

3 Sóftly | sweet in | Lýdián measure Soon he footh'd his | soul to I pleasure. Dryd.

The trochaic tetrameter catalectic of six feet, and closing with a trochee and a semiped, what the Greeks call xalaxres.

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This dancing measure is very proper to the
character of Polonius, a droll humourous old
courtier ; and the mixture of the trochaic has
no bad effect. The verses are thus to be or-
dered. In Hamlet, Act II.

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As are companions noted and most known
To youth and liberty. R. As gaming my Lord.
P. Ay or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,

drabbing, you may go So far. R. My Lord, thou would difbonour bim.

Nor is Shakespeare without instances of the anapestic verse; which verses consist of anapefts, spondees, dactyls; and sometimes is intermixed the pes proceleusmaticus ; as o pěv oil xõušvās ! Qögås o dě 1. věxus ww. Eurip. Orest.

The anapestic monometer acatalectic, of two feet.

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