[155] Note on Musical and Rhetorical Arrangements of Verse
It has been said above (Book I. Chap. V. [Rule 41], p. [35]) that certain additional arrangements of verse may be made for musical or rhetorical purposes. This no doubt requires explanation and example, the latter especially. It shall now have them.
Tennyson's
The watch|er on | the col|umn to | the end,
and Mr. Swinburne's
The thun|der of | the trum|pets of | the night,
are both regular and unexceptionable "heroics," "five-foot iambics," "decasyllabic lines," etc. But in reading them the voice will not improbably be tempted (and need not resist the temptation) to arrange them as
The watcher | on the column | to the end
and
The thunder | of the trumpets | of the night