. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. RHYTHM. fhon defcription of each as they more immediately relate to mufic, at the fame time rendering our differtation on rhythm more complete. A poetical foot coiififts of a certain number of fyllables, which coullitutes a diftinft part of a verfe, as a bar does of an air in mufic. An hexameter verfe confills of fix of thefe feet, a pentameter of five. The Spondee, Iambus, Trochee, and Pyrrhic or Peri- ambus, are diflyllabic feet, or of two fyllables each. The Spondee coniifts of two
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. RHYTHM. fhon defcription of each as they more immediately relate to mufic, at the fame time rendering our differtation on rhythm more complete. A poetical foot coiififts of a certain number of fyllables, which coullitutes a diftinft part of a verfe, as a bar does of an air in mufic. An hexameter verfe confills of fix of thefe feet, a pentameter of five. The Spondee, Iambus, Trochee, and Pyrrhic or Peri- ambus, are diflyllabic feet, or of two fyllables each. The Spondee coniifts of two long fyl- lables, as ver/unl. ^m An Iambic foot has one fhort and one -^— long fyllable. ©:•:•, A;-, i-. potens, amas. " ' 05- s return. The Trochee has one long and one (hort fyllable, i% gratut, mufa. filcnt. , two fhort P In' The Pyrrhic, or Periambus fyllables, as marc, probui. quiver. The DaAyl, Anaposft, Molodus, Tribrach, Bacchius, Antibacchius, Amphibrachys, and Creticus, are trifyl- labics, or of three fyllables. To fome of thefe we have no equivalents; however, the Daftyl, confifting of one long and two fhort fyllables ESE H—J IS very com- mon in our language, as tenderly, hajlily; and we have verfes compofed of daflyls as well as the Greeks and Romans : My I banks they were | furni'fh'd with | bees, Whofe I murmCirs in- | vite one to | flecp. Thefe may be compared with the following celebrated paffages in Homer and Virgil, where the found is mani- feftly, and intentionally, an echo to the fcnfe. Homer (OdylTey, book xi.) after he has defcribed in labouring Spondees the flow and painful manner in which Syfiphus rolled the flone up hill, makes ufe of nimble Daftyls in defcribing its fwift defcent: And Virgil, lib. viii. v. 596, defcribes, in pure DaSyls, the galloping of the horfe : " It clamor, fafto QuadrdptSdante pfitrem fdnitu qilatit Gngtila ; The Anapxll has two fhort and one long fyllable ; as fapiens, recubani, "&
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