"In the | Spring, a | fuller | crimson | comes up | -on the | robin's
| breast;
In the | Spring, the | wanton | lapwing | gets him | -self an | other
| crest;
In the | Spring, a | livelier | iris | changes | on the | burnished
| dove;
In the | Spring, a | young man's | fancy | lightly | turns to
| thoughts of | love.
Then her | cheek was | pale, and | thinner | than should | be for
| one so | young;
And her | eyes on | all my | motions, | with a | mute ob | -servance,
| hung.
And I | said, 'My | cousin | Amy, | speak, and | speak the | truth to
| me;
Trust me, | cousin, | all the | current | of my | being | sets to
| thee.'"
Poems by ALFRED TENNYSON, Vol. ii, p. 35.
Trochaic of eight feet, as these sundry examples will suggest, is much oftener met with than iambic of the same number; and yet it is not a form very frequently adopted. The reader will observe that it requires a considerable pause after the fourth foot; at which place one might divide it, and so reduce each couplet to a stanza of four lines, similar to the following examples:—
PART OF A SONG, IN DIALOGUE.
SYLVIA.
"Corin, | cease this | idle | teasing;
Love that's | forc'd is | harsh and | sour;
If the | lover | be dis | -pleasing,
To per | -sist dis | -gusts the | more."
CORIN.
"'Tis in | vain, in | vain to | fly me,
Sylvia, | I will | still pur | -sue;
Twenty | thousand | times de | -ny me,
I will | kneel and | weep a | -new."
SYLVIA.
"Cupid | ne'er shall | make me | languish,
I was | born a | -verse to | love;
Lovers' | sighs, and | tears, and | anguish,
Mirth and | pastime | to me | prove."