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VERSIFICATION.
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Turning
Burning
Changing
Do not | shoot me, | Hí ǎ |
a wa
wa tha! (trochaic tetrameter)
✔
Like ǎ | hígh-born | maiden
(trochaic trimeter)
(trochaic monometer)
I
Once upon a midnight | dreary | as I | pondered | weak
(trochaic octameter)
and weary
Fancy viewing
I
(trochaic dimeter)
Joys ensuing
There's a bliss | beyond all | that the mín | strel has told
(anapestic tetrameter)
And we came to the Boun | teous Isle | where the
heavens lean low on the land (anapestic hexameter)
Touch her not | scornfully (dactylic dimeter)
Think of her mournfully
I
(dactylic dimeter)
This is the forest při | méval; the | murmuring | pines
(dactylic hexameter, last
foot incomplete)
and the hemlocks
I
Separating lines into the feet of which they are com-
posed (as we have been doing) is called Scansion.