Here frequent iambi are substituted for anapests; as in line 1, second and fourth feet; lines 2 and 3, fifth foot; line 5, third foot.
Five-stress dactylic.
This form is almost unknown. In the following lines we find five-stress catalectic verse of dactyls and trochees combined:
Surely the thought in a man's heart hopes or fears
Now that forgetfulness needs must here have stricken
Anguish, and sweetened the sealed-up springs of tears.
(Swinburne: A Century of Roundels.)
Six-stress iambic.
(For specimens, see Part Two.)
Six-stress trochaic.
(With alternate lines catalectic:)