2.Everett, who divides our trochaic tetrameters into two species of metre, imagines that the catalectic form, or that which is single-rhymed, "has a solemn effect,""imparts to all pieces more dignity than any of the other short measures,""that no trivial or humorous subject should be treated in this measure,"and that, "besides dignity, it imparts an air of sadness to the subject.

A still more common form is that which reduces all these tetrameters to single rhymes, preserving their alternate succession.

The longest anapestics that have gained my notice, are of fourteen syllables, being tetrameters with triple rhyme, or lines of four anapests and two short surplus syllables.