"Oft with his trailing Wing the wanton Dove
Brushes the Ground, and wheels about his Love.
Such Verse as this must please in all Ages, and in all Countries, where the Readers have any Taste and Delicacy of Ear. All the Beauties of Virgil's Poetry are in these Lines; and you may observe in the four last mentioned,
1. How curiously the Pause is varied.
In the first Line it is upon the first Syllable of the fourth Foot.
In the second Line it is upon the first Syllable of the third Foot.
In the third Line it is upon the first Syllable of the second Foot.
In the fourth Line it is upon the last Syllable of the first Foot.
2. Observe the initial Alliteration in the first, second and third Lines.
In the first, Anas and Anser.