Common Metre Stanza. "Like | children | for some | bauble | fair there a-wake and The jewel in our breast!" "Sweet Short Metre Stanza. at the | dawning | light |, | Thy | boundless | love | to | tell | ; | | And when approach the | shades of | night |, | Still Trochaic Measure. "Now begin the | heavenly | theme | | Sing of mercy's | healing | stream: Ye, who | Jesus' | kindness | prove | Sing of his re- | deeming love | !" | MITIMI "Teach me | some me- | lodious | measure |, | Sung by raptured | saints Fill my soul above; with | sacred | pleasure |, | While I sing re- | deeming | love!" Anapastic Measure. "Religion || what | treasure un- told in that | heavenly | word |!11 Re-sides and | gold |, | can af- | ford!"* * From the analysis which has been given of rhythm, in conjunction with metrical accent in its principal forms, it may be perceived that, in reading, the prosodial grouping of syllables is subordinate-not predominant in the audible effect. The common fault in reading verse is caused by inverting this rule; and, when to this defect is added that of omitting the rhythmical pauses, nothing is left to the ear but the mere jingle of the scanning. Prose Rhythm. Extract from Psalm XXXIII. V. 1. "Re- | joice in the | Lord |, | O ye | righteous |:|| 1 for | 2. | Praise the Lord for the up-right ||| with | harp |:|111| sing un- to him with the psaltery and an | instrument of ten 13. Sing | unto him a | new | song |;| strings! and play | skilfully with a | loud noise ||1111 4. For the word of the Lord and all his works are done 5. He love h | rightecusness is right; in truth | MIMI and judgment ||11111 the earth is full of the | goodness of the | Lord | . | 17717716. By the | word of the | Lord were the | neavens | made |;|11| and | all the | host of them by the breath of his mouth. 11|17| 7. He | gathereth the waters of the | sea | to- | gether as a | heap |:| The layeth up the | depth in | store-houses. 777718.1Let | all the earth | fear the | Lord || let | all the in- | habitants of the world stand in | awe of him .777711 9. For he spake, and it was done |;|17|he com- |manded, and it | stood | fast | " | f ៕៕៕៕៕៕ Didactic Style. Reflections in Westminster Abbey.- Addison. "Though I am always | serious, I do not | know what it is to be melancholy |;|and can | therefore | take a | view of Nature | in her | deep and | solemn | scenes |, | with the same | pleasure as in her | most | gay | and de- | lightful ones. 111111 By this means I can im- prove myself with those | objects which | others | con- sider with | terror | . | MIMI When I look upon the tombs of the great |, | every e- | motion of | envy | dies in me when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every in- | ordinate de- | sire goes | out |;| when I meet with the grief of parents | upon a | tombmy heart || melts with com- | passion |;| stone, when I see the | tomb of the parents them- | selves |, | I consider the | vanity of grieving for those I whom we must quickly | follow |:|11|77|when I seekings || lying by | those who de- | posed them, I consider rival | wits, I placed when side by side, or the holy | men that di- | vided the | world with their | contests dis- | putes |, │I re- | flect |, |with | sorrow | and astonishment |, |on the little compe- | titions |, | factions, and debates of man- | kind | . |17|11111 When I read the several | dates of the tombs, of | some that died | yesterday |, | and | some ¦ | six | hundred | years ago, I con- | sider | that | great | day when we shall all of us be con- | temporaries |, | and | make our appearance to- | gether." "They Oratorical Apostrophe. Anticipation.-Webster. are in the distant | regions of fu- | turity |, | they ex- | ist || only in the | all-cre- | ating | power | of the sons of the | Pilgrims |, | till it lose itself in the murmur 71771 of the Pacific | seas | ." | 7717 17 "Ad- | vance |, | ye | future | *gener- | ations | !|| ||We would | hail you |, | as you | rise in your | long suc 1 | cession, to fill the places which we | now | fill, and to taste the blessings of ex- | istence |, |¶ where we are | passing |, | soon | shall have ¦ and | passed, our | human du- | ration | . | We * The initial half accent, in words analogous to the above, is assumed as the equivalent of a full accent; - the time of half accent being equal to that of accent, although the force is not. We | bid you | welcome bid you | welcome to | this | pleasant | land of the | Fathers. to the | healthful skies, and the verdant | fields of | New England).! 17 We | greet your ac- | cession to the | great in- | heritance which we have enjoyed |.19719719 We welcome you to the blessings of good | government and religious | liberty. We welcome you | to the treasures of | science |, | and the de- | lights of | learn to the tran- | scen to the | happiness | ing. 1771717 We welcome you dant sweets of do- | mestic | life |, | of | kindred |, | and | parents |, | and | children |· | 7|7 We welcome you to the im- | measurable | blessings | of rational ex- | istence, the im- mortal | hope | of | EXERCISES IN EMPHASIS. Emphasis, as properly defined by Dr. Rush, in his Philosophy of the Voice, and, indeed, as is implied in the very etymology of the term, is not a mere comparative force of accent only, but a concentration of several or of many expressive elements of vocal sound, upon one element or syllable. The comparative force does, no doubt, exist; but its use is to embody and impress the effect of the rest. Thus, if we select, as an example, the reply of Death to Satan, " Back to thy punishment! false fugitive,' we shall find that the first of the emphatic words, while * True rhythm extends itself not only from clause to clause, but from sentence to sentence, and from paragraph to paragraph, and even to the long quadruple pause which follows the close of a piece or discourse. One of the faults in elocution by which the pulpit is sometimes degraded, is the business-like dispatch with which the minister passes from the last word of his sermon to the formula that follows.. as if his purpose were to obliterate, as quickly as possible, the effect of his discourse. Paragraph pauses are usually double the length of those of periods. Double paragraph pauses are the proper distinctions of the heads of discourse; and these ought to be doubled, if referred to as a definite measure for the pause which should follow an entire discourse. it is intensely forcible, derives much of its effect from "explosive" utterance and "radical stress," from “aspirated pectoral and guttural quality," from "low pitch," "falling inflection," or "downward slide," and "rapid movement," or "brief time;" and that if we subtract some or even any one of these properties, the exclamation sounds as if divested, more or less, of emphasis. Emphasis may be regarded as classed under the following designations: "empassioned," or "absolute," as in the above example, —“ unempassioned" or "intellectual," as in "designation," "distinction," or "discrimination," "correspondence," "contrast," and "preference,” or "choice." Examples. Empassioned Emphasis. "Wò is me! for I dwell among a people of unclean lips." "Gràce! 'tis a charming sound" In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."* Unempassioned Emphasis. Designation. "The supreme love of God is the duty enjoined in the text." "As Contrast. "The former is a blind and noisy applause, – the latter, a more silent and intèrnal homage.” Correspondence. "As ye sów, so shall ye rèap." the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God!" Preference. "Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a stalled óx, and hàtred therewith.”† * Additional examples, in large numbers, may be selected from any or all of the preceding exercises which express strong emotion. † More examples may be found for practice, in the exercises on "inflection." The emphasis will, in these cases, be found coïncident with the accent indicating the slides of the voice. |