MEASURE I.—­IAMBIC OF EIGHT FEET, OR OCTOMETER.

Psalm XLVII, 1 and 2.

“O =all | y~e p=eo | -pl~e, cl=ap | y~our h=ands, | and w=ith | tri=um
| -ph~ant v=oi | -c~es s=ing;
No force | the might | -=y power | withstands | of God, | the u
| -niver | -sal King.” 
See the “Psalms of David, in Metre,” p. 54.

Each couplet of this verse is now commonly reduced to, or exchanged for, a simple stanza of four tetrameter lines, rhyming alternately, and each commencing with a capital; but sometimes, the second line and the fourth are still commenced with a small letter:  as,

“Your ut | -most skill | in praise | be shown,
for Him | who all | the world | commands,
Who sits | upon | his right | -eous throne,
and spreads | his sway | o’er heath | -en lands.”
Ib., verses 7 and 8; Edition bound with Com.  Prayer,
N. Y., 1819.

An other Example.

“The hour | is come | —­the cher | -ish’d hour,
When from | the bus | -y world | set free,
I seek | at length | my lone | -ly bower,
And muse | in si | -lent thought | on thee.” 

        THEODORE HOOK’S REMAINS:  The Examiner, No. 82.

MEASURE II.—­IAMBIC OF SEVEN FEET, OR HEPTAMETER.

Example I.—­Hat-Brims.

“It’s odd | how hats | expand [ their brims | as youth | begins
| to fade,
As if | when life | had reached | its noon, | it want | -ed them
| for shade.” 
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:  From a Newspaper.

Example II.—­Psalm XLII, 1.

“As pants | the hart | for cool | -ing streams, | when heat | -ed in
| the chase;
So longs | my soul, | O God, | for thee, | and thy | refresh
| -ing grace.” 
EPISCOPAL PSALM-BOOK:  The Rev. W. Allen’s Eng.  Gram., p. 227.

Example III.—­The Shepherd’s Hymn.

“Oh, when | I rove | the des | -ert waste, | and ’neath | the hot
| sun pant,
The Lord | shall be | my Shep | -herd then, | he will | not let
| me want;
He’ll lead | me where | the past | -ures are | of soft | and shad
| -y green,
And where | the gen | -tle wa | -ters rove, | the qui | -et hills
| between.

And when | the sav | -age shall | pursue, | and in | his grasp
| I sink,
He will | prepare | the feast | for me, | and bring | the cool
| -ing drink,
And save | me harm | -less from | his hands, and strength | -en me
| in toil,
And bless | my home | and cot | -tage lands, and crown | my head
| with oil.

With such | a Shep | -herd to | protect, | to guide | and guard
| me still,
And bless | my heart | with ev | -’ry good, | and keep | from ev
| -’ry ill,
Surely | I shall | not turn | aside, | and scorn | his kind
| -ly care,
But keep | the path | he points | me out, | and dwell | for ev
| -er there.” 
W. GILMORE SIMMS:  North American Reader, p. 376.

Example IV.—­“The Far, Far Fast.”—­First six Lines.