p. 238
Thus,
in the lines here given, No 1 is lambic tetrameter, No 2 is Trochaic tetrameter, No 3
is Anapæstic tetrameter (the additional syllable at the end making up for the syllable
wanting at the beginning), and No 4 is Dactylic trimeter, with two syllables over.
4 In case of the passage rhyming, the rhyme should be described as being in
couplets, quatrains, sonnet-metre, &c, and the formula for the rhyme and the stanza
should be given, as on pages 229, 230, 231, 233-235.]
1.