hese stanzas with the following:

From The Bridal of the Year.

But the Bride--the Bride is coming!
Birds are singing, bees are humming;
Silent lakes amid the mountains

Look but cannot speak their mirth;
Streams go bounding in their gladness,
With a Bacchanalian madness:

Trees bow down their heads in wonder,
Clouds of purple part asunder,
As the Maiden of the Morning:
Leads the blushing Bride to Earth!
Bright as are the planets seven-
With her glances

She advances

For her azure eyes are heaven!
And her robes are sun-beams woven,
And her beauteous bridesmaids are
Hopes and Wishes-

Dreams delicious

Joys from some serener star,

Heavenly-hued Illusions gleaming from afar!

D. F. M'Carthy.

d not Moore employ the same metre for his M'Carthy? Because the tripping metre so 1 by the latter, would be ill-suited to the slow rief, in fact, would burlesque sorrow. It will poet little, however, to harmonize metre and the reader does not imitate him. A knowlersification is indispensable for the higher poetical reading. A brief presentation of the commonly used is all that we can convenient

ice.

For further information the student is o some treatise on versification.

A poetic foot may be composed of two or three syllables.

Dactyl, first syllable accented, as dutiful. Amphibrach, second syllable accented, as remember. Anapest, third syllable accented, as recollect.

The ancient names for the feet have been retained, but we should remember that the feet in English are not long and short but accented and unaccented.

The Iambus, the Trochee, the Dactyl, and the Anapest are called primary feet. A poem may be formed of any of these without recourse to blending. The following examples are given to illustrate the melody peculiar to each kind.

Spondee:

Rash dream er return! O ye winds of the main
Bear him back to his own peaceful Ara again.

Griffin.

Farewell, a long farewell to all

my greatness.

Shakespeare.

Charity,

Sister of Charity, child of the ho-li-cst.

O for thy living soul ardent as pure.---

Mother of orphans and friend of the lowliestStay of the wretched, the guilty, the poor.

R. D. William ;.

Anapest.

S veet vale of Avo ca! how calm could I rest

In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
And our hearts like thy waters be mingled in peace.

It is unnecessary to preserve one species of feet through out a poem. Hence, in reading poetry, if you find, that, by observing the preponderant metre of a given poem, you violate accent or emphasis, scan the line, to see whether the poet has introduced another kind of feet.

Examples.

That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace.-Shakes peare.

If we read this verse as though it contained all iambic feet we will emphasize "the" in the fourth foot, which is plainly wrong. If we scan the line, we will discover the fourth foot to be a pyrrhic.

That heal the wound, and cures not the disgrace.

Again,

Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,

And catch the manners living as they rise.

According to the scheme of the verse, "as" in the first and the second line, should receive stress. Scan the lines, however, and you will find the poet has introduced pyrrhics.

Here is a stanza including three kinds of feet, with varying position.

From The Turn of the Leaf.

Poor tiny leaf, still so green, Oh! how
Can you forsake thus your native bough?
The sun still willing to shine around
And yet forsooth you sink to the ground!

Kenelm Henry Digby.

her source of melody in verse, is the Final and I pause. The Final pause is especially necessary poetry where the length of the lines vary. the poet did not make one line longer or than another from mere caprice; and what he, printed page, addresses to our eye, we must conthe hearer, by means of the final pause. Where cluding word of a line is closely related to the word of the succeeding verse, make a delicate ion, or poise of the voice on it, using it as a In this way you will keep the lines distinct, and air the sense. Lord Kames, the eminent Scotch ttributes the great variety of modulation cons in English verse to pauses and accents, and he reader, that unless he attends to these, he will ppreciate the richness and variety of English

tion.

Cæsural pause occurs about the middle of the It is soon determined in a selection, but when und, should not be fol.owed blindly. It often

Examples.

s, if eternal justice || rules the ball |
s shall your wives, and thus your childrer