(Matthew Arnold: Sohrab and Rustum.)
Hypermetrical syllable (substituted anapest).
Let me see, let me see, is not the leaf turn'd down?
(Shakspere: Julius Cæsar, IV. iii. 271.)
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.
(Milton: Paradise Lost, I. 201 f.)
This passage was one of those where Bentley made himself ridiculous in his edition of Milton. "To smooth it" he changed the lines to read—
"Leviathan, whom God the vastest made
Of all the kinds that swim the ocean stream,"—
not perceiving, what Cowper pointed out, that Milton had designedly used "the word hugest where it may have the clumsiest effect.... Smoothness was not the thing to be consulted when the Leviathan was in question."
So he with difficulty and labour hard
Moved on, with difficulty and labour he.