...Thy axe shall harm it not. From EVANGELINE Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deepvoiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. THE OAK Alfred...

...higher by the minute, and she fussed like a young mother, separating our gear and handing out decisions. Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest upon their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents...

...The | murmuring s ^ ws \j pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with I moss, and in garments green, wwswwsw indis|tinct in the | twilight, Stand like | Druids of | eld, with | voices | sad and pro|phetic, . . . (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) And here is an example of dactylic meter used within a poem whose...

...footpaths we used as shortcuts going from home to school and home again. 'This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, /Bearded with...and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight," half-forgotten neighboring backlands recover breaks and zigzags, ranges of feeling, little maneuvers...

...even to the rather sentimental tale Longfellow tells in his "Evangeline": This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks Bearded with...harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. This meter is usually handled, as here, with the line ending invariably on a dactyl plus a trochee...

...occasional iambic or trochaic foot) begins: f VV f V V. f VV -* ** ^ f This is the | forest pri|meval. The murmuring | pines and the hemlocks. Bearded with...indis|tinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld. . . . The dactyl, like the trochee, is a useful variant in the iambic line: I wander'd lonely as a...

...beautiful lines and making the poem real for us: This is the forest primeval The murmuring pines and hemlocks Bearded with moss and in garments green, Indistinct in the twilight. . . . Then there was pretty Geraldine O'Connor for gym, even prettier Betty Smith for domestic science,...

...splendid use of this sense of acoustic overbrimming in its opening lines: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.40 Lasting a little longer than the anglophone ear expects, the aural extendedness of these...

...its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought. 16 EVANGELINE This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Bearded with...green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids ot eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms....

...the slow-paced movement needed to express pathetic and solemn effects: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with...like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic. The simile of the pines standing like Druids of eld is characteristic of Longfellow. His figures did...