RHYME is the correspondence of the sound of the last syllable in one
line, to the sound of the last syllable in another; as,
"O'er the glad waters of the dark-blue _sea_,
"Our thoughts as boundless and our souls as _free_."
BLANK VERSE consists in poetical thoughts expressed in regular numbers,
but without the correspondence of sound at the end of the lines which
constitutes rhyme.
POETICAL FEET consist in a particular arrangement and connexion of a
number of accented and unaccented syllables.
They are called _feet_, because it is by their aid that the voice, as it
were, _steps_ along through the verse in a measured pace.
All poetical feet consist either of two, or of three syllables; and are
reducible to eight kinds; four of two syllables, and four of three, as
follows:
DISSYLLABLE. TRISYLLABLE.
A Trochee - u A Dactyle - u u
An Iambus u - An Amphibrach u - u
A Spondee - - An Anapaest u u -
A Pyrrhic u u A Tribrach u u u
A Trochee has the first syllable accented, and the last unaccented; as,
Hateful, pettish:
Restless mortals toil for naught.
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