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men." My experience would lead me to believe the English metre to be quite capablein really
skilful handsof preserving the effect of the Latinthoughas I have said abovethe Latin measure is
employed by Horace both for a threnody and for a love-song.
The Sapphic and the Alcaic involve more difficult questions. Herehoweveras in the AsclepiadI believe we
must be guidedto some extentby external similarity. We must choose the iambic movement as being most
congenial to English; we must avoid the ten-syllable iambic as already appropriated to the longer Asclepiad
line. This leads me to conclude that the staple of each stanza should be the eight-syllable iambica measure
more familiar to English lyric poetry than any otherand as such well adapted to represent the most familiar
lyric measures of Horace. With regard to the Sapphicit seems desirable that it should be represented by a
measure of which the three first lines are eight-syllable iambicsthe fourth some shorter variety. Of this stanza
there are at least two kinds for which something might be said. It might be constructed so that the three first
lines should rhyme with each otherthe fourth being otherwise dealt with; or it might be framed on the plan of
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