Light-armed, or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift or slow.
Paradise Lost, II, 902.
Stains the dead, blank, cold air with a warm shade.
Shelley, Epipsychidion, 92.
Of waves, flowers, clouds, woods, rocks, and all that we
Read in their smiles, and call reality.
Ibid., 511 f.
We have lov'd, prais'd, pitied, crown'd, and done thee wrong.
Swinburne, On the Cliffs.
For extreme examples of the accelerandos and ritenutos which our metrical ear seems willing to accept easily, one might compare two 4-stress lines by contemporary poets—
In the mystery of life.
Robert Bridges.
On the highest peak of the tired gray world.
Sara Teasdale.
or Swinburne's—
The four boards of the coffin lid
Heard all the dead man did....
The dead man asked of them:
"Is the green land stained brown with flame?"
After Death.