Gleam'd."
Much more striking instances of the effect of laying marked and compulsory pauses on first syllables might be adduced, but these, taken by chance, may suffice as illustrations. Such aids to impressive versifying must not be overlooked by young poets. The pause and accent, however, may both be similarly employed and fixed without the help of positive periods. Thus Wordsworth, in lines likewise beautiful from vowel-variety:—
"What time the hunter's earliest horn is heard,
Startling the golden hills."
The voice accents the word "startling" naturally; and mind and ear both own its peculiar aptitude where it is placed. Not less marked is the force of the same word in the middle of the Miltonic line:—
"To hear the lark begin his flight,
And singing startle the dull night."
And again, in the case of the word "start"—
"The patriot nymph starts at imagined sounds."
The following are examples of sense brought clearly out, by placing the pause and accent at different points of the verses:—