Note 911:1 — Scene I

In the English dramatic Iambic pentameter, a ¯ and hypera-catalectic, [sic] the arsis strengthened by the emphasis (in which our blank verse differs from the Greek Prosody, which acknowledges no influence from emphasis) and assisted by the following caesura, permits the licence of an amphimacer ¯ ˘ ¯ for a spondee ¯ ¯: the intermediate ˘ being sucked up. Thus,

¯ ˘ ¯ orphan: left:—

and still more easily an amphibrach for a spondee.

This oth ˘ ¯ | | er fragment ˘ ¯ ˘ | | thrown back, &c. ˘ ¯

[MS. note by S. T. C. in copy of first Edition to lines 302 and 304. In the text 'órphan' and 'frágment' are marked with an accent.]