Composition and rhetoric

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p. xviii

In describing a line, therefore, we should first tell the rhythm, or kind of feet, and then the meter, or the number of feet, thus : iambic pentameter, trochaic tetrame- ter, dactylic hexameter, and so on. Scansion.

p. xx

A third familiar couplet is the trochaic tetrameter: Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!