58. Forever slaves at home and fools abroad. — TENNYSON. 59. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me? - SHAKESPEARE. 60. The full sunrise of the day which peculiarly belongs to the American people in the progress of human events has flooded all the world at last; and we will live each golden moment of our mighty day in a way as great as the day itself. — A. J. Beveridge. 61. 62. 63. 64. On either side the shoe-deep dusted lane The meager wisps of fennel scorch to wire, O'er night's brim, day boils at last, Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away. - BROWNING. Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurled, To give the pole the produce of the sun, Miles and miles of gold and green Where the sunflowers blow In a solid glow. - BROWNING. 65. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. COWPER. - CARLYLE. 66. If every one will sweep before his own door, the street will be clean. - HENRY. 67. Haste trips up its own heels, fetters, and stops itself. — SENECA. The fields and orchards still their tribute bear, And fill her brimming coffers more and more. — Dunbar. 70. Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse power of the understanding. - EMERSON. Full as the rain fills the pitcher-plant's cup. — Lowell. 72. A man's manners are a mirror, in which he shows his likeness to an intelligent observer. 73. GOETHE. 74. Doublets, I think flew up; and had their faces Alas! you know the cause too well; CHAPTER XIII POETIC FORM A COMPOSITION which has as its main purpose the arousing of emotions or the satisfying of the aesthetic sense, that is, the satisfying of an appreciation of beauty of thought or of form, is often expressed in verse. Verse. Verse is such a choice and arrangement of words as results in an accented syllable occurring at fixed intervals. The interval between two accented syllables may consist of one unaccented syllable or of two unaccented syllables according to the kind of verse. Rhythm. The regular recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables is rhythm. The Poetic Foot. An accented syllable with its accompanying unaccented syllable or syllables is called a poetic foot. Poetic feet differ in the relative position of the accented and unaccented syllables. The Trochee. A poetic foot which consists of an accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable is a trochee, or trochaic foot. For example, Come, and trip it, | as you | go, | On the light fantastic | toe. | L'Allegro, MILTON. The Dactyl. A poetic foot which consists of an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables is a dactyl, or dactyllic foot. For example, Nothing was heard in the ❘ room but the | hurrying | pen of the | stripling, | Or an occasional | sigh from the | laboring | heart of the | Captain. | The Iambus. - Miles Standish, LONGFELLOW. A poetic foot which consists of an accented syllable preceded by one unaccented syllable is an iambus, or iambic foot. For example, The Anapest.—A poetic foot which consists of an accented syllable preceded by two unaccented syllables is an anapest, or anapestic foot. For example, Shall the harp | then be silent when he, | who first gave | To our country a name, | is withdrawn | from all eyes? | The Amphibrach. A poetic foot which consists of an accented syllable preceded by one unaccented syllable and followed by another unaccented syllable is an amphibrach. For example, Flow gently, sweet Afton, | among thy | green braes, | Flow gently, I'll sing thee | a song in | thy praise. | BURNS. The Spondee. A poetic foot which consists of two equally accented syllables is a spondee. For example, Hark, Hark! The Pyrrhic Foot. A poetic foot which consists of two unaccented syllables is a pyrrhic foot. This is found most commonly at the end of a verse; as, for example, the last foot in the second and fourth of the following verses: What wert | thou, maid? | thy life thy name, | Oblivion hides in mystery; | Though from thy face | my heart | could frame | A long roman|tic history. | - CAMPBELL. A Verse.Verse is so composed that while one poetic foot sometimes forms a single line, or a verse, a verse usually consists of several poetic feet. Monometer. - A verse that consists of one poetic foot is called monometer. For example, Tolling. Dimeter. A verse that consists of two poetic feet is called dimeter. For example, ༢ Into the moonlight | Whiter than | snow | Waving so flower-like | When the winds | blow. The Fountain, LOWELL. |