_Fáith alóne can intérpret lífe, || and the héart that áches and bléeds with the stígma Of pain, | alóne bears the likeness of Chríst, || and cán comprehénd its dárk enígma._ There are, as appears from this specimen, a great many licences in these verses; the caesura, mostly in the fourth foot, is masculine in lines 1, 5, 6, feminine in 2; so that the second half of the line has an iambic-anapaestic rhythm. Besides this most of the lines have secondary caesuras in different places of the verse; iambic-anapaestic verses (like 3, 4, 6) are decidedly in the minority. The rhymes are both feminine and masculine, but there is no regular alternation between them, as might be supposed from the above short specimen. § =199.= The form of the =seven-foot trochaic-dactylic verse= may be illustrated by the following theoretical specimen, quoted from _The Grammar of English Grammars_ (p. 880), by Goold Brown: _Óut of the kíngdom of Chríst shall be gáthered, | by ángels o'er Sátan victórious, Áll that offéndeth, that líeth, that fáileth | to hónour his náme ever glórious._ Verses of this form with masculine endings printed in short lines occur in a song by Burns (p. 217): _Whére are the jóys I have mét in the mórning, | that dánc'd to the lárk's early sáng? Whére is the péace that awáited my wánd'ring | at évening the wíld woods amáng?_ § =200.= The =six-foot trochaic-dactylic verse= may be illustrated by a theoretical specimen from Goold Brown (p. 880), which is strictly dactylic, with inserted rhymes: _Tíme, thou art éver in mótion, | on whéels of the dáys, years and áges; Réstless as wáves of the ócean, | when Eúrus or Bóreas ráges._ Generally this metre is combined with iambic-anapaestic verses, as e.g. in Mrs. Browning's _Confessions_ (iii. 60) mentioned above, § 192, which is, for the greatest part, written in this form: _Fáce to fáce in my chámber, | my sílent chámber, I sáw her: Gód and shé and I ónly, | there Í sate dówn to dráw her Sóul through the cléfts of conféssion,-- | spéak, I am hólding thee fást As the ángel of résurréction | shall dó it át the lást!_ § =201.= The =five-foot trochaic-dactylic verse= occurs now and then in Swinburne's _A Century of Roundels_, as e.g. on p. 5: _Súrely the thóught | in a mán's heart hópes or féars Nów that forgétfulness | néeds must hére have strícken Ánguish, | and swéetened the séaled-up spríngs | of téars_, &c. The verses are trochaic with two dactyls at the beginning. The caesura is variable; masculine in line 1; trisyllabic after the second arsis in line 2; a double caesura occurs in line 3, viz. a feminine one in the first foot, a masculine one in the fourth. The rhymes are both masculine and feminine.