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Deveations from the above remarks on the versification occur, as we have already stated, only in the smaller poems interwoven in the romance. The following are the most remarkable ones:

double rhymes: f. e. in c. I. st. 31.; c. II. st. 19: breaking, waking; champing, tramping. treble rhymes: in c. IV. st. 25. merrily, sturdily; deathfully, faithfully; trochees: in c. I. st. 31. Soldier rest thy warfare over etc. ede I, dactyles: in c. II. st. 19. Hail to the chief who in triumph advances. —= l l anapaests: in c. III. st. 16. He is gone to the forest. in c. VII. st. 5. Till she bloom like a rose, and a fig for the vicar. — 8=eSeg=egt Printers'rhymes as well as defecient measures are frequently met with throughout the poem f. e.: A. Printers rhymes:

oak, rock(I. 17.)— come, home(I. 24.) Hohscäntal host, lost(I. 33.)— driven, heaven(II. 8.) 4 mood, blood— stood, blood(II. 14)

prize, eyes(I. 8 breese, trees(II. 18.) lays, praise(II. 23.)

Vowel An accent- 5 judge ye, chivalry(II. 28.)

assonances.

ed syllable dell, pinacle(I. 9.)

coupled knee, eternity(III. 1.) with an sky, revelry(III. 2.) undeoenod eye, agony(III 18.)

eye, dizzily(III. 19.) B. Heatant measures: i. e. an unaccented syllable used instead of an accented one and vice versa: (Anäd, stretching forward free and far Soughi the wild heaths of Uam-Var(I. 2.)

And broken arms and dissaray Marh'd the fell havock of the day.

Each valley, each requester'd glen Muster'd its little horde of men. Each train'd to arms since life began, Ouwing no tie but to its clan(III. 28.) And more she deem'd the Monarch's ire Kindled'gainst him who for her sire....(VI. 24.) Particularly in the"Hymn to the Virgin“ part of the beauty is destroyed by the irregularity of the measure. There are a few alliterations in the poem: With hark and eohoops and wild hallow(I. 3.). O'er stock and stone, through watch and ward.(IV. 31).

Appendix. We cannot omit stating in conclusion that in reading the present poem we were more frequently reminded of other literary productions than in the persual of any other work. The following are the most remarkable instances of this similarity:

1. Vet pass we that; the war and chase Give little choise of resting place; A summer night in greenwood spent Were but to-morrow's merriment(I. 16.)

— Was würe zu thun in der herbstlichen Nacht, So hab ich doch manche noch schlimmer vollbracht,

Der Morgen hat alles wohl besser gemacht. (Goethe, Hochzeitlied, Str. 2.)