MEASURE VIII.IAMBIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER.

The error of this will be shown by examples belowexamples of true "Trochaic Monometer," and not of Dimeter mistaken for it, like Weld's, Hart's, or Murray's. OBS.

MEASURE VIII.TROCHAIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER.

MEASURE IV.ANAPESTIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER.

2.Many of our grammarians give anonymous examples of what they conceive to be "Anapestic Monometer," or "the line of one anapest," while others(as Allen, Bullions, Churchill, and Hiley) will have the length of two anapests to be the shortest measure of this order.

The example may quite as well be regarded either as Trochaic Dimeter, cataletic, or as Amphimacric Monometer, acatalectic.

This not only denies the existence of Anapestic Monometer, but improperly takes for the Anapestic verse what is, by the statement itself, half Iambic, and therefore of the Composite Order.

MEASURE VIII.DACTYLIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER.

Besides, the line of three syllables, as was noticed in the observations on Anapestic Monometer, is often peculiarly uncertain in regard to the measure which it should make.

It would be better to prefix the word Now to the fourth line, and to mend the forty-third thus: "And should | I live | to be" The trissyllabic feet of this piece, as I scan it, are numerous; being the sixteen short lines of monometer, and the twenty-four initial feet of the lines of seven syllables.

Monometer, scarcely constitutes a line, yet is sometimes so placed.

Monometer line, iambic, examples of, trochaic, do., anapestic, do., dactylic, an examp.

Some prosodists have taught the absurdity, that two feet are necessary to constitute a metre, and have accordingly applied the terms, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, and hexameter,or so many of them as they could so misapply,in a sense very different from the usual acceptation.

And verses are to be denominated Monometer, Dimeter, Trimeter, &c., according to "THE NUMBER OF FEET."See ib.

But Worcester's Universal and Critical Dictionary has the following not very consistent explanations: "MONOMETER, n. One metre.

When a verse consists of one foot, it is called a monometer; of two feet, a dimeter; of three feet, a trimeter; of four feet, a tetrameter; of five feet, a pentameter; and of six feet, a hexameter.

U Monometer.