Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. (SHELLEY: _To a Skylark_. 1820.) Here lines 2 and 4 are catalectic. _Three-stress anapestic._ I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. (COWPER: _Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk._ 1782.) In this specimen lines 2, 5, 6, and 8 show initial truncation, the first light syllable being missing. (With two-stress verse:) His desire is a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy.... But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. (SIR WALTER RALEIGH (?): _Pilgrim to Pilgrim_. In MS. Rawl. 85; in Schelling's _Elizabethan Lyrics_, p. 3.) "The metres of the earlier years of Elizabeth's reign are so overwhelmingly iambic," Professor Schelling observes, "that this perfectly metrical, if somewhat irregular, anapæstic movement comes like a surprise. Professor Gummere, of Haverford College, calls my attention to three epigrams--printed among the poems of Raleigh, ed. Hannah, p. 55--all of them in more or less limping anapæsts, but not of this measure. It is quite possible that the time to which these verses were sung may have affected the measure." (Notes to _Elizabethan Lyrics_, pp. 211, 212.) (With initial truncation:) She gazed, as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. (SHENSTONE: _Pastoral Ballad._ 1743.) Mr. Saintsbury praises highly the anapests of Shenstone (Ward's _English Poets_, vol. iii. p. 272), saying that he "taught the metre to a greater poet than himself, Cowper, and these two between them have written almost everything that is worth reading in it, if we put avowed parody and burlesque out of the question." But this is probably to be regarded as overstating the case. (With feminine ending:) If you go over desert and mountain, Far into the country of sorrow, To-day and to-night and to-morrow, And maybe for months and for years; You shall come, with a heart that is bursting For trouble and toiling and thirsting, You shall certainly come to the fountain At length,--to the Fountain of Tears. (ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY: _The Fountain of Tears._ 1870.) Here the extra light syllable at the end of the line is really the initial light syllable of the following line, as in the specimen on p. 29, above.