It is plain that this falls into two rhythmical parts, though we shall not expect them to correspond, since this is prose, not verse. If we set a dash for each syllable and mark the ictuses by one or more dots according to their strength, we find this scheme:— ⁚ ⁝ ⁚ · - - - - - - - - - - - ‖ · ⁚ ⁝ ⁚ - - - - - - - - - - - ‖ (It will be noticed that in this superb passage the two periods do, as it happens, correspond in length.) Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? (_Isaiah_ liii. 1). · ⁚ ⁝ · ⁚ ⁝ ⁚ - - - - - - - ‖ - - - - - - - - - - - ‖ So with longer passages, where, however, we shall find at times that our voice quite naturally makes a colon-ending in the midst of a grammatical sentence. Therefore let us also, ‖ seeing we are compassed about ‖ with so great a cloud of witnesses, ‖ lay aside every weight, ‖ and the sin which doth so easily beset us, ‖ and let us run with patience ‖ the race that is set before us ‖ (_Hebrews_ xii. 1, R.V.). · ⁚ · - - - - - - · ⁚ · - - - - - - - - · ⁚ ⁝ - - - - - - - - - · ⁚ ⁝ - - - - - - - ⁚ ⁝ ⁚ - - - - - - - - - - - - · ⁚ ⁝ - - - - - - - ⁝ ⁚ · - - - - - - - - (Observe how, in the last two cola, first the mounting and then the declining emphasis provide a splendid close.) Let us now attempt so to catch the rhythm of a passage from Sophocles (_Antigone_, 582 _sqq._) if set out as prose. εὐδαίμονες οἷσι κακῶν ἄγευστος αἰών. οἷς γὰρ ἂν σεισθῇ θεόθεν δόμος, ἄτας οὐδὲν ἐλλείπει, γενεᾶς ἐπὶ πλῆθος ἕρπον· ὅμοιον ὥστε ποντίαις οἶδμα δυσπνόοις ὅταν θρῄσσαισιν ἔρεβος ὕφαλον ἐπιδράμῃ πνοαῖς, κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν θῖνα, καὶ δυσάνεμοι στόνῳ βρέμουσιν ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί. ἀρχαῖα τὰ Λαβδακιδᾶν οἴκων ὁρῶμαι πήματα φθιτῶν ἐπὶ πήμασι πίπτοντ’, οὐδ’ ἀπαλλάσσει γενεὰν γένος, ἀλλ’ ἐρείπει θεῶν τις, οὐδ’ ἔχει λύσιν. νῦν γὰρ ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ ῥίζας ὃ τέτατο φάος ἐν Οἰδίπου δόμοις, κατ’ αὖ νιν φοινία θεῶν τῶν νερτέρων ἀμᾷ κονίς, λόγου τ’ ἄνοια καὶ φρενῶν Ἐρινύς.