"Now in each pettiest personal sphere of dew
The summ'd morn shines complete as in the blue
Big dew-drop of all heaven;"*9*

beside which must be hung this exquisite picture:

"The dew-drop morn may fall from off the petal of the sky."*10*

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*1* In `Clover'.
*2* `Corn', ll. 185-187.
*3* See on this point the remarks of Professor Trent
in his admirable life of `Simms' (Boston, 1892), p. 149.
*4* `June Dreams', l. 21 ff.
*5* `Psalm of the West', l. 183 ff.
*6* `Sunrise', ll. 80-81.
*7* Ibid., ll. 82-85.
*8* Ibid., ll. 114-115.
*9* Ibid., ll. 134-136.
*10* `The Ship of Earth', l. 5.
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As to versification, Lanier uses almost all the types of verse
-- iambic, trochaic, blank, the sonnet, etc. -- and with about equal skill.
Three features, however, specially characterize his verse:
the careful distribution of vowel-colors and the frequent use
of alliteration and of phonetic syzygy,*1* by which last is meant
a combination or succession of identical or similar consonants,
whether initially, medially, or finally, as for instance