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Longfellow's Hiawatha, written in trochaic tetrameter, and Evangeline, mainly in dactylic hexameter, are two

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Heard the lapping | of the water (Trochaic tetrameter.) This is the forest priſmeval; the murmuring | pines and the hemlocks 1 (Dactylic hexameter.)

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. $ 94 This form frequently has an additional syllable; as, Vital spark of | heav'nly | flame, Quit, oh quit this | mortal | frăme! 4. Trochaic Tetrameter. The fourth form consists of four trochees; as, Round us | roars the | tempest | lõudĕr.

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The odd lines are trochaic tetrameter j complete; and the even, trochaic tetrameter j defective.

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The varieties most used by the Latin poets are, 1st. The Trochaic tetrameter catalectic, rarely pure.

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Thus we have Iambic Tetrameter, Iam- bic Pentameter, etc.; Trochaic Tetrameter, Anapestic Trimeter, and so on. IAMBIC.

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It is frequently employed also for longer narrative poems, like Scott's Marmion. The trochaic tetrameter has been very effectively used by Longfellow in Hiawatha.

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The first, called Boädicea, is in Trochaic Tetrameter, which properly consists of eight trochees, but consider- able variations are admitted, of which our Laureate has availed himself, by frequently introducing a dactyl in the sixth foot, and occasionally closing his line with a catalectic syllable :- 1 | "Roar'd as when the | rolling | breakers | boom and | blanch on the precipices, Yell'd as when the winds of winter tear an oak on a promontory, So the silent colony hearing her tumultuous adversaries."

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. | This is the most commonly used trochaic measure (c) TROCHAIC TETRAMETER With a | fúll but | sóft e mótion, Like the swell of | súmmer's | ócean.

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Four trochees, trochaic tetrameter : I Willows whiten, | aspens | quiver, Little breezes | dusk and | shiver.

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Longfellow's “ Song of Hiawatha” is written in trochaic tetrameter.

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Verse consisting of four Trochees is called Trochaic Tetrame- ter; as, - There' he | sang'.of | Hi'a / wa'tha, Sang' the / song' of Hi'a / wa'tha.

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-Longfellow. 66 (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) - "Come, be happy-sit near me, - (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) Shadow-vested misery." (3 ax + or trochaic trimeter hypermetrical) -Shelley. When the hours of day are numbered (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter) And the voices of the night (4 ax- or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) Wake the better soul that slumbered (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter) To a holy, calm delight." (4 ax - or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) -Longfellow.

-Carew. (4 ax - or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) "Tender-handed, stroke a nettle (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter) And it stings you for your pains ; (4 ax- or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) Grasp it like a man of mettle (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter) And it soft as silk remains." (4 ax- or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) -Aaron Hill,

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-George Herbert. (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) ---- "If she love me, this believe, I would die ere she should grieve." - Wither. (4 ax or trochaic tetrameter catalectic) - TRISYLLABIC.

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1- ^1 - |--| --- ázure |- -| Knéel adóring Hím the Timeless in the fláme that méasures 1 - || - - J - · 1 0 0||~ - |~ Shé beloved for a kíndliness Ráre in fáble or history, (Akbar's Hymn, 5-8; trochaic tetrameter, cata- lectic in lines 1, 2, 4. Note the anaclastic foot, for, in five instances: shadow bis, mónarch, ázure, méasures.

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.) - -1-- - ὃς τὰ κλείν᾽ αἰνίγματ᾽ ᾔδει καὶ κράτιστος ἦν ἀνήρ 1 -1- -1- - - ^ | (trochaic tetrameter catalectic; Sophocles, Edipus Rex 1525.) are normal in all the Greek and Latin iambic and trochaic verse actually known to us from the seventh century B.C. down to the Augustan age of Latin literature.¹ And to us moderns such lines present themselves as perfectly 1 A few poems of Catullus (4 and 29) and Horace (Epod. 16, Od. ii. 18) are abnormal and artificial in their structure.

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The whole, however, is really trochaic tetrameter, or trochaic hexameter. Without such catalectic lines, single rhymes would be impossible in trochaic verse.

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Longfellow's Hiawatha is the most prominent, almost the only example, of pure trochaic tetrameter in serious verse:- "Out of childhood into manhood - Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all the lore of old men, In all youthful sports and pastimes, In all manly arts and labors."

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Trochaic Trimeter ; Go where | glory | waits thee, | But whore fame elates thee. 4. Trochaic Tetrameter ; Round a | holy | calm dif | fusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing. 5.