(In combination with two-stress and three-stress:) No more I'll vaunt, For now I see Thou only hast the power To find And bind A heart that's free, And slave it in an hour. (HERRICK: _His Recantation._ 1648.) _Two-stress iambic_. Most good, most fair, Or things as rare To call you 's lost; For all the cost Words can bestow So poorly show,... (DRAYTON: _Amouret Anacreontic._ ab. 1600.) Because I do Begin to woo, Sweet singing Lark, Be thou the clerk, And know thy when To say Amen. (HERRICK: _To the Lark._ 1648.) The raging rocks, And shivering shocks, Shall break the locks Of prison-gates; And Phibbus' car Shall shine from far, And make and mar The foolish Fates. (SHAKSPERE: Bottom's song in _Midsummer Night's Dream_, I. ii. ab. 1595.) (In combination with three-stress:) Only a little more I have to write; Then I'll give o'er, And bid the world good-night. 'Tis but a flying minute That I must stay, Or linger in it; And then I must away. (HERRICK: _His Poetry his Pillar._ 1648.) In the second stanza we have the same measure with feminine ending. (In combination with four-stress:) Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. (POPE: _Ode on Solitude._ ab. 1700.) _Two-stress trochaic_. Could I catch that Nimble traitor, Scornful Laura, Swift-foot Laura, Soon then would I Seek avengement. (CAMPION: Anacreontics, in _Observations in the Art of English Poesie_. 1602.) (In combination with four-stress:) Dust that covers Long dead lovers Song blows off with breath that brightens; At its flashes Their white ashes Burst in bloom that lives and lightens. (SWINBURNE: _Song in Season._) (Catalectic, and in combination with three-stress:) Summer's crest Red-gold tressed, Corn-flowers peeping under;-- Idle noons, Lingering moons, Sudden cloud, Lightning's shroud, Sudden rain, Quick again Smiles where late was thunder. (GEORGE ELIOT: Song from _The Spanish Gypsy_, Bk. i. 1868.) The trochaic measures in _The Spanish Gypsy_ are in imitation of the similar forms in Spanish poetry. See p. 114, below. _Two-stress anapestic._ (In combination with three-stress:) Like a gloomy stain On the emerald main Alpheus rushed behind,-- As an eagle pursuing A dove to its ruin Down the streams of the cloudy wind. (SHELLEY: _Arethusa._ 1820.) (With feminine ending:) He is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, When our need was the sorest. The font, reappearing, From the raindrops shall borrow, But to us comes no cheering, To Duncan no morrow!