Faltering and fluttering in her throat, she cried,
My brother.

6. While the great organ almost burst his pipes,
Groaning for power, and rolling thro' the court
A long melodious thunder to the sound

Of solemn psalms, and silver litanies. 7. Saw the moon rise from the water

Rippling, rounding from the water,
Saw the flecks and shadows on it,
Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?"
8. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,
When neither is attended; and I think
The nightingale, if she should sing by day
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.

9. A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,

And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fanlike leaves to the light,
And closed them beneath the kisses of night.
10. For many a petty king ere Arthur came
Ruled in this isle, and ever waging war
Each upon the other, wasted all the land;
And still from time to time the heathen host

Swarmed overseas, and harried what was left.

II. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a

tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

12. Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

The last of life, for which the first was made:

Our times are in His hand

Who saith "A whole I planned,

Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”

432. Definitions. -The following definitions and examples will serve to explain some things that cannot be taken up here more in detail:

1. Rhythm is the modulation of sound occasioned by the harmonious recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables.

2. Stress is another term for accent, and is used in the preceding pages, because the metrical does not always coincide with the word accent.

3. Rime (or rhyme) is the correspondence of initial or concluding sounds in two or more words.

4. End Rime is the correspondence of vowel or vowel and consonantal sounds at the ends of lines.

5. Alliterative Rime is the correspondence of letters or sounds at the beginning of two or more words, or the recurrence of the same letter in the accented syllables of verse.

Ex. Out I sprang from glow to gloom:

There whirled her white robe like a blossomed branch.

6. Single Rime is the correspondence of sounds in single syllables.

Ex. Creep into thy narrow bed,

Creep and let no more be said.

7. Double Rime is the correspondence of sounds in the last two syllables of words, the first of which is stressed.

Ex. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures,

Whilst the landscape round it measures.

8. Triple Rime is the correspondence of sounds in three syllables, the first of which is stressed.

Ex. Father all-glorious,

O'er all victorious.

9. Sectional Rime is a rime within the line.

Ex. We were the first that ever burst

Into that silent sea.

10. Blank Verse is verse that is without end rime. II. A Verse is a single line of a metrical composition. 12. A Stanza is a division of a poem containing two

or more verses.

13. A Couplet (or Distich) consists of two verses which rime together.

Ex. There are seven pillars of Gothic mould
In Chillon's dungeons deep and old.

14. The Heroic Couplet is a couplet consisting of two iambic pentameter lines, the thought of which does not run over into a following line.

Ex. Loud neigh the horses o'er their heaps of corn
And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.

15. Mixed Verse is verse in which two or more kinds of meter are so intermingled that it is impossible to determine which dominates. Examples are Evangeline, Miles Standish, and parts of Sir Launfal.

16. Scansion is the process of indicating, either orally or in writing, the measures and stresses of metrical composition.

INDEX

The numbers refer to pages.

Adjective: described, 21; defined, Adjective: pronominal, 242; equiva-

Adverb: described, 27; defined, 28; | Adverb: complements and adver-

Clauses dependent, 39; as nouns, Clauses: descriptive, 267.