wo short
syllables, where it has not been introduced by the poet, _e.g._ in 31,
34, 49, 64, 65, 68, 79. In v. 10 I have ventured on a license which
Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and
earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a
minore at the end of the line. In reading this poem it should never be
forgotten that there is a pause in the middle of each line, which
practically divides it into two halves. Tennyson, in his _Boadicea_,
written on the model of the _Attis_, divides each verse similarly in the
middle; but in the first half he has changed the rhythm of Catullus to a
trochaic rhythm, in the second, while producing much of the effect of
the _Attis_ by the accumulation of short syllables at the end of the
line, he has not bound himself to the same strictly defined feet as
Catullus, and generally has preferred to take from the somewhat
emasculate character of the verse by adding an unaccented syllable at
the close.

LXIII.

8 _Taborine_

Beat loud the tabourines, let the trumpets blow.

_Troilus and Cressida_, Act iv. sc. 5.

16 _Aby_

abide; as, I think, in Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, vi. 2, 19.

But he was fierce and whot,
Ne time would give, nor any termes aby.

Below, lxiv. 297, I have used it in its more common meaning of atoning
for, _Faerie Queene_, iv. 1, 53.

Yet thou, false Squire, his fault shalt deare aby,
And with thy punishment his penance shalt supply.

_Midsummer Night's Dream_, iii. 2.

Lest to thy peril thou aby it dear.

24 _Ululation._

There sighs, complaints, and ululations loud
Resounded through the air without a star.

LONGFELLOW'S _Dante Inf_. iii. 22.

41 _When he smote the shadowy twilight with his healthy team sublime._

Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team
Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise,
And shake the darkness from their loosen'd manes,
And beat the twilight into flakes of fire.

TENNYSON, _Tithonus_.

83 _On a nervy neck._

Four maned lions hale
The sluggish wheels; solemn their toothed maws,
Their surly eyes brow-hidden, heavy paws
Uplifted drowsily, and nervy tails
Covering their tawny brushes.

KEATS, _Endymion_, II. ad fin.

LXIV. 160.

_Yet to your household thou, your kindred palaces olden._

I have combined _thou_ with _your_ purposely