Elementary English composition for high schools and academies

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p. 290

The graphic representation is 4 (1 x); it is trochaic tetrameter:-(1) She walks in beauty, like the night. (2) The paths of glory lead but to the grave. (3) Dust thou art, to dust returnest. (4) Nor bid a warrior smile, nor teach a maid to weep. (5) Let not Ambi- tion mock their useful toil. (6) There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. (7) For thee, oh, now a silent soul, my brother. (8) Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more!'

p. 298

Compose lines, or find new examples, described as (1) Iambic trimeter. (2) Trochaic tetrameter. (3) Dactyllic dimeter. (4) Trochaic hexameter. (5) Am- phibrachic tetrameter. (6) Anapæstic trimeter.