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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."