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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE METRE COLUMBIAN, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: This is the metre columbian. The soft-flowing trochees and dactyls
Last Line: "breaks, and in accents mellifluous, follows the thoughts of the author"
Subject(s): "authors & Authorship;longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882);
First Line: This is the metre columbian. The soft-flowing trochees and dactyls
Last Line: "breaks, and in accents mellifluous, follows the thoughts of the author"
Subject(s): "authors & Authorship;longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882);
This is the metre Columbian. The soft-flowing trochees and dactyls,
Blended with fragments spondaic, and here and there an iambus,
Syllables often sixteen, or more or less, as it happens,
Difficult always to scan, and depending greatly on accent,
Being a close imitation, in English, of Latin hexameters —
Fluent in sound and avoiding the stiffness of blank verse,
Having the grandeur and flow of America's mountains and rivers,
Such as no bard could achieve in a mean little island like England;
Oft, at the end of a line, the sentence dividing abruptly
Breaks, and in accents mellifluous, follows the thoughts of the author.
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