Crossword-Solution: STIC 4 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Assuredly the popularity of the metre which, for want of a term suiting the English rules of verse, must be called anapæstic, has done more than any other thing to vulgarise the national sense of rhythm and to silence the finer rhythms.

This, for instance, is the old metre: ‘Hame, hame, hame! O hame fain wad I be!’ and this the lamentable anapæstic line (from the same song): ‘Yet the sun through the mirk seems to promise to me—.’ It has been difficult to refuse myself the delight of including _A Divine Love_ of Carew, but it seemed too bold to leave out four stanzas of a poem of seven, and the last four are of the poorest argument.

Dactylic, 1.000 0.436 0.349 Amphibrachic, 0.488 1.000 0.549 Anapæstic, 0.479 0.484 1.000 The dactylic form is characterized by a progressive decline in intensity throughout the series of elements which constitute the group.

But in the anapæstic form as well as in the dactylic there is a clear duality in the arrangement of elements within the group, since the two unaccented beats fall, as before, into one natural group, while the accented element is set apart by its widely differentiated magnitude.

Under this same assumption there should be expected in the anapæstic form of rhythm an exaggeration of the progressive increase in the final interval, together with a further reduction in the duration of the initial; since from the falling of the accent on the final interval two factors of increase combine, while in the initial, which immediately follows the accented interval in the series, a positive factor of reduction appears.