Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

[26]. But it falls at end of the word—the English cæsura never divides a word as the classic one does. In the second instance the "is" being enclitic is practically part of the word.—T.H.

[27]. Because he was writing words to an air.—T.H.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

Indents are as per the original.

Variations in spelling hyphenation, punctuation and accentuation were maintained.