Remémber | the glóries | of Brían | the Bráve;
where the same division separates both the measure and the subdivisions of the sense, inasmuch as the word the is connected with the word glories equally in grammar and in metre, in syntax and in prosody. So is of with Brian, and the with Brave.
Contrast with this such a line as
A chieftain to the Highlands bound.
Here the metrical division is one thing, the grammatical division another, and there is no coincidence.
Metrical,
A chíef | tain tó | the Hígh | lands bóund.
Grammatical,
A chieftain | to the Highlands | bound.
In the following stanza the coincidence of the metrical and grammatical combination is nearly complete:—