J. S. Hart, who, like many others, has mistaken the metre of this last example for “Trochaic Tetrameter,” with a surplus “syllable,” after repeating the current though rather questionable assertion, that, “this measure is very uncommon,” proceeds with our “Trochaic Pentameter,” thus:  “This species is likewise uncommon.  It is composed of five trochees; as,

    =In th~e | d=ark and | gr=een and | gl=oom~y | v=all~ey,
    S=at~yrs | b=y th~e | br=ookl~et | l=ove t~o | d=all~y.”

And again:  [[Fist]] “The SAME with an ADDITIONAL accented syllable; as,

    Wh=ere th~e | w=ood is | w=aving |gr=een and |_h=igh_,
    F=auns and | Dr=y~ads | w=atch th~e | st=arr~y | sky.”
       Hart’s English Grammar, First Edition, p. 187.

These examples appear to have been made for the occasion; and the latter, together with its introduction, made unskillfully.  The lines are of five feet, and so are those about the ruddy farmer; but there is nothing “additional” in either case; for, as pentameter, they are all catalectic, the final short syllable being dispensed with, and a caesura preferred, for the sake of single rhyme, otherwise not attainable.  “Five trochees” and a rhyming “syllable” will make trochaic hexameter, a measure perhaps more pleasant than this.  See examples above.

MEASURE V.—­TROCHAIC OF FOUR FEET, OR TETRAMETER.

Example I.—­A Mournful Song.

    1.

    “Raving | winds a | -round her | blowing,
    Yellow | leaves the | woodlands | strewing,
    By a | river | hoarsely | roaring,
    Isa | -bella | strayed de | -ploring. 
    ’Farewell | hours that | late did | measure
    Sunshine | days of | joy and | pleasure;
    Hail, thou | gloomy | night of | sorrow,
    Cheerless | night that | knows no | morrow.

    2.

    O’er the | past too | fondly | wandering,
    On the | hopeless | future | pondering,
    Chilly | grief my | life-blood | freezes,
    Fell de | -spair my | fancy | seizes. 
    Life, thou | soul of | every | blessing,
    Load to | misery | most dis | -tressing,
    O how | gladly | I’d re | -sign thee,
    And to | dark ob | _-livion_ | join thee.’”
        ROBERT BURNS:  Select Works, Vol. ii, p. 131

Example II.—­A Song Petitionary.

   “Powers ce | -lestial, | whose pro | -tection
     Ever | guards the | virtuous | fair,
    While in | distant | climes I | wander,
     Let my | Mary | be your | care: 
    Let her | form so | fair and | faultless,
     Fair and | faultless | as your | own;
    Let my | Mary’s | kindred | spirit
     Draw your | choicest | influence | down.