on the ear. He is frequently forced to divide a word by the central
or pivotal pause of the line, and sometimes to make a pause in the
sense where the rhythm forbids it. Take for example some of the opening
lines of _Evangeline_:

"This is the forest prime|val. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in gar|ments green, indistinct in the twilight.
Loud from its rocky cav|erns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents discon|solate answers the wail of the forest.
Lay in the fruitful val|ley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward."

Again, in order to comply with the Greek and Latin rule of beginning each
line with a _long_ syllable, he is compelled to emphasize words
contrary to the sense. Examples:

_In_ the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas
_Some_what apart from the vil|lage, and nearer the Basin of Minas.
_But_ a celestial bright|ness--a more etherial beauty.
_And_ the retreating sun the sign of the scorpion enters.
_In_-doors, warmed by the wide-|mouthed fireplace idly the farmer,
_Four_ times the sun had ris|en and set; and now on the fifth day,

"Greek and Latin Hexameter lines, as to time, are all of the
same length, being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve
long syllables, or twenty-four short ones. An Hexameter line may consist
of seventeen syllables, and when regular and not Spondiac, it never
has fewer than thirteen: whence it follows that where the syllables
are many, the plurality must be short; where few, the plurality must
be long. This line is susceptible of much variety as to the succession
of long and short syllables. It is however subject to laws that confine