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| "When wealth to virtuous hands is given, |
| It blesses like the dew of Heaven; |
| Like Heaven, it hears the orphan's cries, |
| And wipes the tears from widow's eyes." |
5. Sometimes the rhymes occur in alternate lines; that is, two lines come together which are not rhymes, and are followed by two lines to make rhymes to both, as follows:
| "Let the sweet work of prayer and praise |
| Employ our youngest breath; |
| Thus we're prepared for longer days, |
| Or fit for early death." |
6. There are some kinds of verses that do not rhyme. These are called blank verse. Here is an example of blank verse:
| "Mark well, my child, he said; this little stream |
| Shall teach thee charity. It is a source |
| I never knew to fail: directed thus |
| Be that soft stream, the fountain of thy heart. |
| For, oh! my much-loved child, I trust thy heart |
| Has those affections that shall bless thyself; |
| And, flowing softly like this little rill, |
| Cheer all that droop. The good man did not err." |
7. Now, there are several things that I wish you to notice in these lines. In the first place, if you will count the syllables, you will find that there are exactly ten syllables in each line; and it is always the case, that in verse it is necessary that there should be a certain number of syllables of a certain kind.
8. What that number is, I cannot now explain to you; but you will be able to understand from a book called a grammar, which you will probably study at some future time, if you do not study it now. It is contained in that part of grammar called Prosody.
9. The next thing I wish you to notice is, that every line of verse always begins with a capital letter.
10. And thirdly you will notice, that the lines of verse are more regular in their sound than lines of prose. They have a kind of musical sound about them, which you very rarely hear, except in verse.