Í am the Wár God,
Í am the Thúnderer!
Hére in my Nórthland,
My fástness and fórtress,
Réign I for éver!
Hére amid ícebergs
Rúle I the nátions.
§ 205. One-foot dactylic verses are not likely to occur except in anisometrical stanzas. We are unable to quote any proper example of them, but the following two four-lined half-stanzas from Scott’s Pibroch of Donald Dhu (p. 488), in which some of the two-foot lines admit of being resolved into verses of one foot, may serve to illustrate this metre:
Cóme away,
Cóme away,