§ =205. One-foot dactylic verses= are not likely to occur except in anisometrical stanzas. We are unable to quote any proper example of them, but the following two four-lined half-stanzas from Scott's _Pibroch of Donald Dhu_ (p. 488), in which some of the two-foot lines admit of being resolved into verses of one foot, may serve to illustrate this metre: _Cóme away, _Fáster come, Cóme away, Fáster come, Hárk to the summons! Fáster and fáster, Cóme in your Chíef, vassal, Wár-array, Páge and groom, Géntles and cómmons._ Ténant and Máster._ NOTES: [173] _A Century of Roundels_, p. 30. [174] Cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 232. [175] _Prince Henry and Elsie_, pp. 249-51. [176] Cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 238. [177] Cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 239. CHAPTER XV NON-STROPHIC, ANISOMETRICAL COMBINATIONS OF RHYMED VERSE § =206.= Non-strophic anisometrical combinations of rhymed verse consist of lines of different metres, rhyming in pairs, and recurring in a definite order of succession. One of these combinations, known as the =Poulter's Measure= (Alexandrine + Septenary), already occurs in the Middle English Period (cf. § 146) and has remained in use down to the present day. It was at one time extremely popular, and has in the Modern English Period been imitated in other metres. The most common variety of this metre is that in which the verses have an iambic-anapaestic rhythm; they are usually printed in short lines, as e.g. in a poem by Charles Kingsley: _When Í was a gréenhorn and yóung, And wánted to bé and to dó, I púzzled my bráins about chóosing my líne, Till I fóund out the wáy that things gó._ Before his time Burns had composed a poem in the same metre, _Here's a Health to them that's awa_ (p. 245); and at the end of the seventeenth century Philips (_Poets_, vi. 560) wrote a _Bacchanalian Song_ in similar verses. In the same metre are the _Nonsense Rhymes_ by Edward Lear,[178] as well as many other quatrains of a similar kind, the humour of which is often somewhat coarse. An unusual sub-species of this metre, consisting of trochaic verses, occurs only very rarely in Leigh Hunt, e.g. in _Wealth and Womanhood_ (p. 277): _Háve you séen an héiress ín her jéwels móunted, Tíll her wéalth and shé seem'd óne, ánd she míght be cóunted? Háve you séen a bósom wíth one róse betwíxt it? And díd you márk the gráteful blúsh, whén the brídegroom fíx'd it?_ § =207.= Other anisometrical combinations consist of a five-foot line followed by one consisting of four, three, or two feet. This form we find pretty often; Ben Jonson, e.g., uses it (five + four feet) in his translation of Horace, _Odes_ v. 11 (_Poets_, iv. 596):