6. Whyˋ bendest thou in stormˋ; whyˋ lower thy headˋ?
IV. When a question is asked commencing with a verb, the previous rule is reversed, and all the important words in the question, particularly the last, take the rising inflection.
EXAMPLES.
1. Is the windˊ blowˊing? Is the sunˊ shinˊing? Is it rainˊing? Is it snowˊing?
2. Do I loveˊ? dost thou loveˊ? do we loveˊ?
3. Are you coldˊ? Is he poorˊ? Is she vainˊ?
4. Has he not involˊved himself by his improvˊidence?
5. Has that poorˊ man been cheatˊed? has his povˊerty been no protecˊtion?
Exception.—When the question defies contradiction, and is only interrogatory in form, being really an assertion, the falling inflection is used: as—
6. Are not the happy rareˋ? Are not the good the most hapˋpy?