Intent to hear, and eager to repeat. Dryden.
In all these measures the accents are to be placed on even syllables; and every line considered by itself is more harmonious, as this rule is more strictly observed. The variations necessary to pleasure belong to the art of poetry, not the rules of grammar.
Our trochaick measures are Of three syllables,
Here we may
Think and pray,
Before death
Stops our breath:
Other joys
Are but toys. Walton's Angler.
Of five,