ðhís |
A poet's business is, in fact, to take care that the syllables which are to be rapidly pronounced are such as easily can be so; and that the syllables which are to be heavily accented are naturally those that ought to be. If he gives attention to this it does not much matter whether each foot has two or three syllables in it.
A man is master of his art when he can write—
Come in | to the gar | den, Maud ||
For the black | bat, night, | has flown ||
And the wood | bine spi | ces are waf | ted abroad ||
And the musk | of the rose | is blown ||
With respect to the final -en, it should be further noted—
(1) That it is sometimes fully pronounced, as in ll. [87] and [91]—