Crossword-Solution: MACRON 6 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

METRICAL FEET LESSON FOR A BOY [** Macron and breve accent marks have been left off, see the note in the Forum.] Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yea ill able Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable.

POEMS By Victor Hugo 1888 [Transcription note: One poem uses an a with a macron over it, this has been rendered as ä, which is not used in this text for any other purpose.] CONTENTS.

There is a macron over an 'e' on the last line of E3v, which has been rendered as 'ê' in this transcription.] THE [TP] Tragicall Historie of HAMLET _Prince of Denmarke_ By William Shake-speare.

Thus, in a _dactyl_ (breve-macron-macron) (long-short-short) the first syllable, which is the former part of the foot, is equal to the two others, in the _iambic_ (macron-breve)(short-long) the last is double the first, and in the _paeon_ (macron-macron-macron-breve, or breve-macron-macron-macron)(short- short-short-long, or long-short-short-short) one of its parts, which is the long syllable, is equal to two-thirds of the other.

The next thing to be considered is, what are the numbers which are most suitable to his character, and, for that reason, should occur more frequently than the rest? Some prefer the _Iambic_ (macron-breve)(short- long) as approaching the nearest to common language; for which reason, they say, it is generally made use of in fables and comedies, on account of it's resemblance to conversation; and because the dactyl, which is the favourite number of hexameters, is more adapted to a pompous style.