A History of English Versification

by J. Schipper

As by the shore, at break of day,
A vanquish’d Chief expiring lay,

I. versus:

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Upon the sands, with broken sword,
He traced his farewell to the Free;

II. versus:

{

And, there, the last unfinish’d word
He dying wrote was ‘Liberty’.

Moore, Song.

A very rare variety of tripartition that, as far as we know, does not occur till Modern English times, is that by which the cauda is placed between the two pedes. This arrangement, of course, may occur in each of the three kinds of tripartition. A specimen of the last kind (viz. that in which the cauda is distinguished from the pedes by a different arrangement of rhymes) may suffice to explain it:

I. pes: