These accents make different impressions on the mind, which will be the subject of a following speculation. In the mean time, it may be safely pronounced a capital defect in the composition of verse, to put a low word, incapable of an accent, in the place where this accent should be. This bars the accent altogether; and I know no other fault more subversive of the melody, if it be not that of barring a pause altogether. I may add affirmatively, that it is a capital beauty in the composition of verse, to have the most important word of the sentence, so placed as that this capital accent may be laid upon it. No single circumstance contributes more to the energy of verse, than to have this accent on a word, that, by the importance of its meaning, is intitled to a peculiar emphasis. To show the bad effect of excluding the capital accent, I refer the reader to some instances given above, p. ooo, where particles are separated by a pause from the capital words that make them significant, and which particles ought, for the sake of the melody, to be accented, were they capable of an accent. Add to these the following instances from the Essay on Criticism. Oft, leaving what || is natural and fit, _line 448._ Not yet purg’d off, || of spleen and sour disdain _l. 528._ No pardon vile || obscenity should find _l. 531._ When love was all || an easy monarch’s care _l. 537._ For ’tis but half || a judge’s talk, to know _l. 562._ ’Tis not enough, || taste, judgement, learning, join _l. 563._ That only makes || superior sense belov’d _l. 578._ Whose right it is, || uncensur’d, to be dull _l. 590._ ’Tis best sometimes || your censure to restrain _l. 597._ When this fault is at the end of the line that closes a couplet, it leaves not the least trace of melody: But of this frame the bearings, and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies In a line expressive of what is humble or dejected, it improves the resemblance betwixt the sound and sense, to exclude the capital accent. This, to my taste, is a beauty in the following lines. In thêse deep sôlitudes || and aŵful cells The pôor inhâbitant || behôlds in vain To conclude this article, the accents are not, like the syllables, confined to a certain number. Some lines have no fewer than five, and there are lines that admit not above one. This variety, as we have seen, depends entirely on the different powers of the component words. Particles, even where they are long by position, cannot be accented; and polysyllables, whatever space they occupy, admit but one accent. Polysyllables have another defect, that they generally exclude the full pause. I have shown above, that few polysyllables can find place in the construction of English verse. Here are reasons for excluding them, could they find place.