Note 35 — Chapter IV
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Apparent paeons occur now and then, where the usual contraction would reduce them to triple time. Mr. Omond, Study of Metre, pp. 96, 97, gives among others these examples:
The leaves they were withering and sere. Our memories were treacherous and sere. Poe. The rags of the sail Are flickering in ribbons within the fierce gale. Shelley. A land that is lonelier than ruin. Swinburne.