Ariel’s Song.

   “C=ome un |-t=o these | y=ell~ow | s=ands,
    And th=en | t~ake h=ands: 
    Court’sied | when you | have and | kiss’d,
    (The wild | waves whist,)
    Foot it | featly | here and | there;
    And, sweet | sprites, the | burden | bear.” 
        SINGER’S SHAKSPEARE:  Tempest, Act i, Sc. 2.

MEASURE IV.—­TROCHAIC OF FIVE FEET, OR PENTAMETER

Example I.—­Double Rhymes and Single, Alternated.

   “Mountain | winds! oh! | whither | do ye | call me? 
      Vainly, | vainly, | would my | steps pur |-sue: 
    Chains of | care to | lower | earth en |-thrall me,
      Wherefore | thus my | weary | spirit | woo?

    Oh! the | strife of | this di |-vided | being! 
      Is there | peace where | ye are | borne, on | high? 
    Could we | soar to | your proud | eyries | fleeing,
      In our | hearts, would | haunting | m=em~or~ies | die?”
       FELICIA HEMANS:  “To the Mountain Winds:”  Everet’s Versif., p. 95.

Example II—­Rhymes Otherwise Arranged.

   “Then, me |-thought, I | heard a | hollow | sound,
    G=ath~er~ing | up from | all the lower | ground: 
    N=arr~ow~ing | in to | where they | sat as |-sembled,
    Low vo |_-l~upt~uo~us_ | music, | winding, | trembled.” 
       ALFRED TENNYSON:  Frazee’s Improved Gram., p. 184; Fowler’s, 657.

This measure, whether with the final short syllable or without it, is said, by Murray, Everett, and others, to be “very uncommon.”  Dr. Johnson, and the other old prosodists named with him above, knew nothing of it.  Two couplets, exemplifying it, now to be found in sundry grammars, and erroneously reckoned to differ as to the number of their feet, were either selected or composed by Murray, for his Grammar, at its origin—­or, if not then, at its first reprint, in 1796.  They are these:—­

(1.)

   “All that | walk on | foot or | ride in | chariots,
    All that | dwell in | pala |-ces or | garrets.”

L.  Murray’s Gram., 12mo, 175; 8vo, 257; Chandler’s, 196; Churchill’s, 187; Hiley’s, 126; et al.

(2.)

   “Idle | after | dinner, | in his | chair,
    Sat a | farmer, | ruddy, | fat, and | fair.”

Murray, same places; N. Butler’s Gr., p. 193; Hallock’s, 244; Hart’s, 187; Weld’s, 211; et al.

Richard Hiley most absurdly scans this last couplet, and all verse like it, into “the Heroic measure,” or a form of our iambic pentameter; saying, “Sometimes a syllable is cut off from the first foot; as,

    =I |-dl~e =af |-t~er d=inn |-n~er =in | h~is ch=air [,]
    S=at | a f=ar |-mer [,] r=ud |-dy, f=at, | =and f=air.”
        Hiley’s English Grammar, Third Edition, p. 125.