PINDARIC MEASURES. These hold an intermediate position between stanzas and continuous verse. They are divided into strophes, which seldom contain more than twenty-eight or fewer than fourteen lines. Irregularity may be said to be their law; the lines, as well as the strophes, are of different lengths, and the rhymes are arranged in half-a-dozen different ways. For an example, see p. 327. As a general rule they are in iambic measure; but trochaic lines are sometimes introduced with striking effect. Thus in Gray's Bard, which consists of nine strophes, six containing fourteen, and three twenty lines, each shorter strophe opens with a trochaic line, so as to produce the sense of abruptness which the poet was aiming at: Ruin seize thee, | ruthless | king, |. Confusion on thy banners wait. [ INDEX. Abbreviations:-Bp. for Bishop; Abp. for Archbishop flor. for floruit Bull, Geo. (Bp.) (1634–1710) 152, 395 Chubb, Thos. (1679-1747) 201 184, 304 133 Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) 170 361 378 116 235 373 375 226, 326, 389, 398 74 136 201 185 189 135 115-7, 242, 326 Cowper, Wm. (1731-1800) 145, 377 28 376 99 Cudworth, Ralph (1617-1688) 146, 387 228, 327 Campion, Edm. (1540-1581). 103 348 Canning, Geo. (1770-1827) Caradoc (circa 1150) Carew, Thos. (died 1639) 118, 324 101 262 380 63, 79 171 Cave, Wm. (1637-1713) 87 |