The art of writing verse,

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In the following the first line is regular, the second truncated: "Little | drops of water, | Little grains of sand Make the mighty | ocean And the beauteous | land." Trochaic Tetrameter. Eight syllables (regular line.) In unrhymed verse Longfellow's "Hia- watha" furnishes a well-known example: "With a flute of reeds a stranger Wanders piping through the village."