Note 107 — Chapter V · THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL—ITS PRECURSORS AND FIRST GREAT STAGE
Reading edition
With "long measure," but with the last line cut down to a monometer:
O! what | can ail | thee, knight-|at-arms, Alone | and pale|ly loi|tering? The sedge | has with|ered from | the lake, And no | birds sing.
This last line being sometimes exquisitely equivalenced in the first foot:
Ănd hĕr ēyes | wĕre wīld. . . . . . . . Ŏn thĕ cōld | hill side.