Richard Hiley most absurdly scans this last couplet, and all verse like it, into "the Heroic measure," or a form of our iambic pentameter; saying, "Sometimes a syllable is cut off from the first foot; as,
=I |-dl~e =af |-t~er d=inn |-n~er =in | h~is ch=air [,]
S=at | ~a f=ar |-m~er [,] r=ud |-dý, f=at, | =and f=air."
Hiley's English Grammar, Third Edition, p. 125.
J. S. Hart, who, like many others, has mistaken the metre of this last example for "Trochaic Tetrameter," with a surplus "syllable," after repeating the current though rather questionable assertion, that, "this measure is very uncommon," proceeds with our "Trochaic Pentameter," thus: "This species is likewise uncommon. It is composed of five trochees; as,
=In th~e | d=ark ~and | gr=een ~and | gl=oom~y | v=all~ey,
S=at~yrs | b=y th~e | br=ookl~et | l=ove t~o | d=all~y."
And again: [Fist] "The SAME with an ADDITIONAL accented syllable; as,
Wh=ere th~e | w=ood ~is | w=av~ing |gr=een ~and |h=igh,
F=auns ~and | Dr=y~ads | w=atch th~e | st=arr~y | sky."
Hart's English Grammar, First Edition, p. 187.
These examples appear to have been made for the occasion; and the latter, together with its introduction, made unskillfully. The lines are of five feet, and so are those about the ruddy farmer; but there is nothing "additional" in either case; for, as pentameter, they are all catalectic, the final short syllable being dispensed with, and a cæsura preferred, for the sake of single rhyme, otherwise not attainable. "Five trochees" and a rhyming "syllable" will make trochaic hexameter, a measure perhaps more pleasant than this. See examples above.
MEASURE V.—TROCHAIC OF FOUR FEET, OR TETRAMETER.
Example I.—A Mournful Song.
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