a syllable not used by the poet?  The preceding stanza from Glover, is trochaic of four feet; the odd lines full, and of course making double rhyme; the even lines catalectic, and of course ending with a long syllable counted as a foot.  Johnson cited it merely as an example of “double endings” imagining in it no “additional syllable,” except perhaps the two which terminate the two trochees, “fear none” and “Vernon.”  These, it may be inferred, he improperly conceived to be additional to the regular measure; because he reckoned measures by the number of syllables, and probably supposed single rhyme to be the normal form of all rhyming verse.

OBS. 8.—­There is false scansion in many a school grammar, but perhaps none more uncouthly false, than Churchill’s pretended amendments of Johnson’s.  The second of these—­wherein “the old seven[-]_foot iambic_” is professedly found in two lines of Glover’s trochaic tetrameter—­I shall quote:—­

“In the anapaestic measure, Johnson himself allows, that a syllable is often retrenched from the first foot; yet he gives as an example of trochaics with an additional syllable at the end of the even lines a stanza, which, by adopting the same principle, would be in the iambic measure: 

   “For | resis- | tance I | could fear | none,
      But | with twen | ty ships | had done,
    What | thou, brave | and hap | py Ver- | non,
      Hast | achiev’d | with six | alone.

In fact, the second and fourth lines here stamp the character of the measure; [Fist] which is the old seven[-]foot iambic broken into four and three, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SYLLABLE AT THE BEGINNING.”—­Churchill’s New Gram., p. 391.

After these observations and criticisms concerning the trochaic order of verse, I proceed to say, trochaics consist of the following measures, or metres:—­

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

Example I.—­“The Raven”—­First Two out of Eighteen Stanzas.

1. 
   “Once up | -on a | midnight | dreary, | while I | pondered, | weak and
          
                                                     | weary,
    Over | m=any ~a | quaint and | c=ur~io~us | volume | of for
                                                          | -gotten | lore,
    While I | nodded, | nearly | napping, | sudden |-ly there | came a
          
                                                     | tapping,
    As of | some one | gently | rapping, | rapping | at my | chamber
          
                                                     | door. 
    ‘’Tis some | visit |-or,’ I | muttered, | ’tapping | at my | chamber
          
                                                     | door--
        Only | this, and |nothing | more.”