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Note 2. In the Trochaic Tetrameter, the caesura ought to
be altogether avoided after the fourth foot, which divides the
verse into two hemistichs ; as in the ecclesiastical hymn, on
the passion of our Lord ;
Pcinge, | lingua, \ glori\osi \\ laure\am cer\tdminis,
Et super crucis trophceo |] die triumpJium nobilem :
Qualiter, Redemptor orbis \\ immolatus vicerit.
It is evident that the dactyl in iambics, and the
anapest in trochai'cs, must have a considerable influence in
checking the poetic rhythm of the line, and in imparting to
it a prose cadence, not unbecoming in comedy and other
loose compositions, the sermoni propiora. The Trochaic
Tetrameter Catalectic appears to be the same as the Iambic
Octonarius Acatalectic without the first syllable, the same
variations being admitted in the even places of the trochaic,
as in the odd of the iambic.