Pauses not only fill up the incomplete time of a foot containing only short syllables, but they also fill the time of wholly missing syllables. In the verse "Come from the dying moon, and blow" we start out with trisyllabic rhythm, but have only two syllables in the second and in the third foot. It does not seem certain whether the missing syllable after _dying_ is to have its place filled by a pause or by a prolongation of either or both of the syllables _dy-ing_--perhaps by all three means combined. In the same way the missing syllable after _moon_ may have its place filled either by the prolongation of the _oo_, or by the pause indicated by the comma, or by both. But in other cases the pause occupies the entire syllable-moment; for examples, see under Pauses in pages 20-22 above. The whole matter was well summed up in Lanier's saying that "rhythm may be dependent on silences" as well as on sounds. Let us now try to gather what we have been considering into the form of definite statements regarding the place of the time-element in our verse. 1. _In the normal verse, accents appear at equal time-intervals._ This, of course, does not preclude all manner of variations; the unit of measure is not the distance between the accents as they are found in each verse, but between the points where they belong in the typical metre. 2. _There is a tendency toward the coincidence of long and accented, and of short and unaccented, syllables._ This we have seen to be true in two different senses. In the first place, an accented syllable is likely to be lengthened for the same reason that it is accented--because of its relative importance in the place where it stands. In the second place, syllables noticeably long are avoided in those places in the verse where the accent does not fall, and are preferred where the stress is heavy. 3. _In the reading of verse, the length of the syllables is varied artificially, so as to tend to preserve the equal time-intervals._ 4. _In like manner, pauses are introduced where syllables are short or wanting, to preserve these intervals._