Over stream and mount and valley sweeps the merry, careless rover,
Toying with the fragrant blossoms, beating down the heads of clover.
[2637.] (1.) When there is a diaeresis after the fourth foot, the verse is asynartetic ([2535]).
[2638.] (2.) The Octonarius is essentially a lyric metre, and is much less common than the Septenarius.
[The Trochaic Tetrameter Claudus (or Scazon).]
[2639.] This verse is a trochaic tetrameter acatalectic, with syncope and protraction in the seventh foot. The normal scheme is:
–́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑ | –́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑ | –́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑ | ⏗́ | –́ ⏑
An example is:—
Néc co|ruscus | ímber | altō ‖ nū́bi|lō ca|dḗns | múltus
–́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑ | –́ ⏑ | –̇ > # –́ ⏑ | –̇ ⏑ | ⏗́ | –́ ⏑ (Varro, Sat. fr. 557 Buech.).