(2) the addition of two syllables, making seven instead of six beats.
"What good were else i' the drum and fife? O pleasant land of France!"
FOOTNOTES:
Handbook, p. 148.
J.T. Nettleship on "Fifine at the Fair" (Browning Society's Papers, Part II. p. 223). Mr. Nettleship's elaborate analysis of the poem is a most helpful and admirable piece of work.