the rhythm is extraordinary; and the added complexity of 'own' puts it entirely hors concours. Compare with it, however, Milton's
Which but th' Omnipotent none could have foil'd.
Paradise Lost, I, 273.
Not merely titular, since by degree.
Ibid., V, 774.
[91] The italics are not Wordsworth's.
[92] Here the italics are the poet's.
[93] Some readers take the line thus:
◡ _̷ _̷ ◡ ◡ _̷ ◡`[A] ◡ ◡ _̷
with emphasis or pitch-accent on 'first'; in which case the above explanation does not hold.
[94] Milton's Prosody, p. 30 (ed.1901).
[95] The pronounced syncopations of ragtime partially illustrate this.