A verse having four iambic feet is called iambic
tetrameter. So we have dactylic hexameter, trochaic pentameter, iambic
trimeter, anapestic dimeter, etc.
EXERCISES
_A._ Mark the accented and unaccented syllables in the following
selections, and name the kind of verse:--
1.
Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel
That shall laugh at all disaster
And with wave and whirlwind wrestle.
--Longfellow.
2.
I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air,
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
--Whittier.
3.
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
--Tennyson.
4.
Chanting of labor and craft, and of Wealth in the pot and the
garner;
Chanting of valor and fame, and the man who can, fall with the
foremost,
Fighting for children and wife, and the field which his father
bequeathed him,
Sweetly and solemnly sang she, and planned new lessons for
mortals.
--Kingsley.
5.
Have you read in the Talmud of old,
In the Legends the Rabbins have told,
Of the limitless realms of the air,
Have you read it,--the marvelous story
Of Sandalphon, the Angel of Glory,
Of Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer?
--Longfellow.
_B._ 1. Find three poems written in iambic verse, and three written in
trochaic verse.
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