(k) Mr. Swinburne (other long anapæstic and trochaic measures):
If again | from the night | or the twi|light of a|ges Aris|tophanes | had ari|sen.
. . . . . . .
That the sea | was not love|lier than here | was the land, nor the night | than the day, | nor the day | than the night.
. . . . . . .
Night is | utmost | noon, for|lorn and | strong, with | heart a|thirst and | fasting.
. . . . . . .
Till the dark|ling desire | of delight | shall be far, | as a fawn | that is free | from the fangs | that pursue | her.
(These are respectively seven-foot anapæsts with redundance (anapæstic tetrameter catalectic); ditto eight-foot (tetrameter acatalectic); trochaic tetrameter acatalectic; and anapæstic tetrameter hypercatalectic (eight feet and a half).)
XLVI. The Later Sonnet
(To illustrate the strict octave and sextet pattern with final rhymes adjusted on the Italian pattern.)
Dante Rossetti:
Under the arch of Life, where love and death,
Tērrŏr and mys|tĕry̆, gūard | her shrine, I saw
Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,
I drew it in as simply as my breath.
Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath
The sky and sea, bend o'er thee—which can draw
By sea, or sky, or woman, to one law
Thĕ ăllōt|ted burden of her palm and wreath.
This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise
Thy voice and hand shake still—long known to thee
By flying hair and flut|tĕrĭng hēm |—the beat
Fōllŏwĭng | her daily of thy heart and feet.
How pas|sĭonătelȳ | and irretrievably
In what fond flight, how many ways and days!
XLVII. The Various Attempts at "Hexameters" in English
(a) Earlier (Elizabethan):