"Whăt Sūsăn,
My beauty!
Refuse one
So true t' ye?
This ditty
Of sadness
Begs pity
For madness."
2. The second form of the English Iambic consists of two Iambuses, and sometimes takes an additional short syllable: as,
"Mȳ eȳe, whăt fūn.
With dog and gun,
And song and shout,
To roam about!
And shoot our snipes!
And smoke our pipes!
Or eat at ease,
Beneath the trees,
Our bread and cheese!
To rouse the hare
From gloomy lair;
To scale the mountain
And ford the fountain,
While rustics wonder
To hear our thunder."
3. The third form consists of three lamouses: as in the following morceau, the author of which is, we regret to say, unknown to us; though we did once hear somebody say that it was Mr. Anon.
"Jăck Sprātt ĕat āll thĕ fāt,
His wife eat all the lean,
