II.  WINTER.

   “When blood | is nipp’d, | and ways | be foul,
    Then night | -ly sings | the star |-ing owl, To-who;
    To-whit, | to-who, | a mer | -ry note,
    While greas | -y Joan | doth keel | the pot.” 
        —­SHAKSPEARE:  Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v, Sc. 2.

Example V.—­Puck’s Charm.

[When he has uttered the fifth line, he squeezes a juice on Lysander’s eyes.]

   “On the ground,
      Sleep sound;
      I’ll apply
      To your eye,
    Gentle | lover, | remedy. 
     When thou wak’st,
       Thou tak’st
     True delight
     In the sight
    Of thy | former | lady’s eye.” [508]
       IDEM:  Midsummer-Night’s Dream, Act iii, Sc. 2.

ORDER II.—­TROCHAIC VERSE.

In Trochaic verse, the stress is laid on the odd syllables, and the even ones are short.  Single-rhymed trochaic omits the final short syllable, that it may end with a long one; for the common doctrine of Murray, Chandler, Churchill, Bullions, Butler, Everett, Fowler, Weld, Wells, Mulligan, and others, that this chief rhyming syllable is “additional” to the real number of feet in the line, is manifestly incorrect.  One long syllable is, in some instances, used as a foot; but it is one or more short syllables only, that we can properly admit as hypermeter.  Iambics and trochaics often occur in the same poem; but, in either order, written with exactness, the number of feet is always the number of the long syllables.

Examples from Gray’s Bard.

    (1.)

“Ruin | seize thee,| ruthless | king!  Confu | -sion on | thy ban |-ners wait, Though, fann’d | by Con | -quest’s crim | -son wing.  They mock | the air | with i | -dle state. Helm, nor | hauberk’s | twisted | mail, Nor e’en | thy vir | -tues, ty | -rant, shall | avail.”

(2.)

“Weave the | warp, and | weave the | woof,
The wind | -ing-sheet | of Ed | -ward’s race. 
Give am | -ple room, | and verge | enough,
The char | -acters | of hell | to trace.
Mark the |year, and | mark the | night,
When Sev | -ern shall | re-ech | -o with | affright.”
“The Bard, a Pindaric Ode;”
British Poets, Vol. vii, p. 281 and 282.

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1.—­Trochaic verse without the final short syllable, is the same as iambic would be without the initial short syllable;—­it being quite plain, that iambic, so changed, becomes trochaic, and is iambic no longer.  But trochaic, retrenched of its last short syllable, is trochaic still; and can no otherwise be made iambic, than by the prefixing of a short syllable to the line.  Feet, and the orders of verse, are distinguished one from an other