--Coleridge.
_An anapest_ is a foot consisting of three syllables with the accent on
the last.
U U _| U U _|U U _|
I am monarch of all I survey.
U U _ | U U _ | U U _ |
I would hide with the beasts of the chase.
_A trochee_ is a foot consisting of two syllables with the accent on the
first.
_ U | _ U | _ U | _ U|
Double, double, toil and trouble.
--Shakespeare.
_ U | _ U |_ U |_ U |
Let us then be up and doing,
_ U| _ U | _U | _ |
With a heart for any fate,
_ U |_ U | _ U|_ U |
Still achieving, still pursuing,
_ U | _ U |_ U | _ |
Learn to labor and to wait.
--Longfellow.
_A dactyl_ is a foot consisting of three syllables with the accent on the
first.
_ U U | _ U U |
Cannon to right of them,
_ U U | _ U U |
Cannon to left of them,
_ U U | _ U U |
Cannon in front of them,
_ U U |_ U |
Volleyed and thundered.
--Tennyson.
It will be convenient to remember that two of these, the iambus and the
anapest, have the accent on the last syllable, and that two, the trochee
and the dactyl, have the accent on the first syllable.
_A spondee_ is a foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are
accented about equally. It is an unusual foot in English poetry.
U _ | _ _ | U _| U _ |
Come now, blow, Wind, and waft us o'er.
_A pyrrhic_ is a foot consisting of two syllables both of which are
unaccented.
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