In
the following selection it is marked thus: ||.
U _ | U _ | U _| U _ |
The sun came up || upon the left,
_ U| U _ | U _ |
Out of the sea || came he;
U _| U _ | U _| U _|
And he shone bright, || and on the right
U _ | U_ | U _ |
Went down || into the sea
--Coleridge.
Lives of great men || all remind us
We can make our lives || sublime,
And, departing, || leave behind us,
Footprints || on the sands of time.
--Longfellow.
Read the selections on page 197 so as to indicate the position of the
cesural pauses.
+113. Scansion.+--Scansion is the separation of a line into the feet which
compose it. In order to scan a line we must determine the rhythmic
movement of it. The rhythmic movement determines the accented syllables.
Sometimes in scanning, merely the accented syllables are marked. Usually
the whole metrical scheme is indicated, as in the examples on page 199.
EXERCISE
Scan the following selections. Note substitutions and
elusions.
1.
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is gone.
--Francis W. Bourdillon.
2.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
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