Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IX. Tragedy: Humor. 1904. | | | | Humorous Poems: IV. Ingenuities: Oddities | | Metrical Feet | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | | TROCHEE trips from long to short; | |
| From long to long in solemn sort | |
| Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yet ill able | |
| Ever to come up with dactyl trisyllable. | |
| Iambics march from short to long;— | 5 |
| With a leap and a bound the swift Anapæsts throng; | |
| One syllable long, with one short at each side, | |
| Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride;— | |
| First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer | |
| Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high-bred racer. | 10 | | | |
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