(SCOTT: Coronach, from _The Lady of the Lake_, Canto 3. 1810.) (In combination with four-stress:) Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go. (BROWNING: _Prospice._ 1864.) These specimens, as is usual in anapestic verse, show considerable freedom in the treatment of the part of the foot containing the light syllables, substituted iambi being very common. Note the iambi in the Shelley stanza, line 1, second foot, and line 5, first foot. In the latter case, however, the first light syllable of line 5 is really supplied by the syllable added to make the feminine ending of line 4. In like manner, in the Scott stanza, the first syllable of line 8 is really supplied by the _-ing_ of line 7; and where we have both feminine ending (in line 1) and a full anapest following, the effect is that of a hypermetrical syllable which must be hurried over in the reading. In the specimen from Browning we find an iambus in the opening foot in lines 2 and 6 (also, of course, in lines 1 and 5). _Two-stress dactylic._ One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair! (THOMAS HOOD: _The Bridge of Sighs._ ab. 1830.) Here the alternate lines are catalectic, both light syllables being wanting. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. (TENNYSON: _Charge of the Light Brigade._ 1854.) Here the fourth and ninth lines are catalectic. Loudly the sailors cheered Svend of the Forked Beard, As with his fleet he steered Southward to Vendland; Where with their courses hauled All were together called, Under the Isle of Svald Near to the mainland. (LONGFELLOW: _Saga of King Olaf_, xvii. 1863.) In the reading of these stanzas from Tennyson and Longfellow there is so marked a stress on the final syllable as to make the second dactyl (except in the opening lines of the Tennyson stanza) more like a Cretic (in the classical terminology); _i.e._ a foot made up of two heavy syllables with a light syllable between them. But no such foot is generally recognized in English verse. _Two-stress irregular._ On the ground Sleep sound: I'll apply To your eye, Gentle lover, remedy. When thou wak'st, Thou tak'st True delight In the sight Of thy former lady's eye. (SHAKSPERE: Puck's Song in _Midsummer Night's Dream_, III. ii. ab. 1595.)