2. 
    Ah! dis |-tinctly | I re |-member | it was | in the | bleak De
          
                                                     |-cember,
    And each | s=ep~ar~ate | dying | ember | wrought its | ghost up
          
                                               |-on the | floor;
    Eager |-ly I | wished the | morrow; | vainly | had I | tried to
          
                                                     | borrow
    From my | books sur |-cease of | sorrow—­| sorrow | for the | lost Le
          
                                                     |-nore--
    For the | rare and | r=ad~i~ant | maiden, | whom the | angels
                                                         | name Le |-nore--
          Nameless | here for | ever |-more.” 
       EDGAR A. POE:  American Review for February, 1845.

Double rhymes being less common than single ones, in the same proportion, is this long verse less frequently terminated with a full trochee, than with a single long syllable counted as a foot.  The species of measure is, however, to be reckoned the same, though catalectic.  By Lindley Murray, and a number who implicitly re-utter what he teaches, the verse of six trochees, in which are twelve syllables only, is said “to be the longest Trochaic line that our language admits.”—­Murray’s Octavo Gram., p. 257; Weld’s E. Gram., p. 211.  The examples produced here will sufficiently show the inaccuracy of their assertion.

Example II.—­“The Shadow of the Obelisk.”—­Last two Stanzas.

“Herds are | feeding |in the | Forum, | as in | old E | -vander’s
| time: 
Tumbled | from the | steep Tar |_-peian_ | every | pile that
| sprang sub |-lime. 
Strange! that | what seemed | most in |-constant | should the | most a
| -biding | prove;
Strange! that |what is | hourly | moving | no mu |-tation | can re
|-move: 
Ruined | lies the | cirque! the | chariots, | long a |-go, have
| ceased to | roll--
E’en the | Obe |-lisk is | broken |—­but the | shadow | still is
| whole.

9.

Out a |—­las! if | mightiest | empires | leave so | little | mark be
|-hind,
How much | less must | heroes | hope for, | in the | wreck of | human
| kind! 
Less than | e’en this | darksome | picture, | which I | tread be
|-neath my | feet,
Copied | by a | lifeless | moonbeam | on the | pebbles | of the
| street;
Since if | Caesar’s | best am |-bition, | living, | was, to | be re
|-nowned,
What shall | Cassar | leave be |-hind him, | save the | shadow | of a
| sound?”
T. W. PARSONS:  Lowell and Carter’s “Pioneer," Vol. i, p. 120.

Example III.—­“The Slaves of Martinique.”—­Nine Couplets out of Thirty-six.