στενάζω; τί ῥέξω; γελῶμαι πολίταις.
ἔπαθον ὦ δύσοιστα (Eumenides, 788 sq.).
⏑⁝– –⏑|– –⏑‖– –⏑|– –ꞈ‖
⏑⁝⏑⏑–⏑|– –ꞈ‖.
Ye storm-winds of Autumn!
Who rush by, who shake
The window, and ruffle
The gleam-lighted lake.—(M. Arnold.)
⏑⁝– –⏑|– –ꞈ‖
⏑⁝– –⏑|–⏗̭‖
⏑⁝– –⏑|– –ꞈ‖
⏑⁝– –⏑|–⏗̭‖.
But it should be noted that, though bacchiac scansion seems soundest for the above—“storm-winds” for instance has two ictuses—the poet probably meant the lines for dactylic dipodies with anacrusis: “storm-winds of” thus would be an accentual dactyl. But that would slur “winds” unduly.