“In the | Spring, a | fuller | crimson | comes up | -on the | robin’s
| breast;
In the | Spring, the | wanton | lapwing | gets him | -self an | other
| crest;
In the | Spring, a | livelier | iris | changes | on the | burnished
| dove;
In the | Spring, a | young man’s | fancy | lightly | turns to
| thoughts of | love.

Then her | cheek was | pale, and | thinner | than should | be for
| one so | young;
And her | eyes on | all my | motions, | with a | mute ob | -servance,
| hung. 
And I | said, ’My | cousin | Amy, | speak, and | speak the | truth to
| me;
Trust me, | cousin, | all the | current | of my | being | sets to
| thee.’”
Poems by ALFRED TENNYSON, Vol. ii, p. 35.

Trochaic of eight feet, as these sundry examples will suggest, is much oftener met with than iambic of the same number; and yet it is not a form very frequently adopted.  The reader will observe that it requires a considerable pause after the fourth foot; at which place one might divide it, and so reduce each couplet to a stanza of four lines, similar to the following examples:—­

PART OF A SONG, IN DIALOGUE.

    SYLVIA.

    “Corin, | cease this | idle | teasing;
      Love that’s | forc’d is | harsh and | sour;
    If the | lover | be dis | -pleasing,
      To per | -sist dis | -gusts the | more.”

    CORIN.

    “’Tis in | vain, in | vain to | fly me,
      Sylvia, | I will | still pur | -sue;
    Twenty | thousand | times de | -ny me,
      I will | kneel and | weep a | -new.”

    SYLVIA.

    “Cupid | ne’er shall | make me | languish,
      I was | born a | -verse to | love;
    Lovers’ | sighs, and | tears, and | anguish,
      Mirth and | pastime | to me | prove.”

    CORIN.

    “Still I | vow with | patient | duty
      Thus to | meet your | proudest | scorn;
    You for | unre | -lenting | beauty
      I for | constant | love was | born.”

       Poems by ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD, p. 56.

PART OF A CHARITY HYMN.

    1.

    “Lord of | life, all | praise ex | -celling,
      thou, in | glory | uncon | -fin’d,
    Deign’st to | make thy | humble | dwelling
      with the | poor of | humble | mind.

    2.

    As thy | love, through | all cre | -ation,
      beams like | thy dif | -fusive | light;
    So the | scorn’d and | humble | station
      shrinks be | -fore thine | equal | sight.

    3.

    Thus thy | care, for | all pro | -viding,
      warm’d thy | faithful | prophet’s | tongue;
    Who, the | lot of | all de | -ciding,
      to thy | chosen | Israel | sung: 

    4.