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the former this foot is short of one unaccented syllable, and in the
latter of two :-
Life' is | but' an | em'-pty | dream'.-LONGFELLOW.
(Trochaic tetrameter, 4 feet.)
Com'-rades, leave' me | here' a | lit'-tle, | while' as | yet' 'tis |
ear'-ly morn'.
In Longfellow's Hiawatha we have a solitary example of
blank verse in Trochaic tetrameters:-
Then' the lit'-tle | Hi'-a- | wa'-tha
Learned' of ev'-ery | bird' the | lan'-guage.
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Occasionally we have blank verse in Dactylic dimeters :-
right' of them,
left' of them,
Can'-non to
Can'-non to
Can'-non in front' of them.