Excerpt from The Works of Virgil, Translated, Vol. 2 of 2: The First Four Pastorals, the Georgics, and the First Four Æneids, by the Rev. Rann Kennedy, the Last Six Pastorals, and the Last Eight Æneids, by Charles Rann Kennedy

The epico-dramatic measure of the English is not only the best equivalent for the ancient Hexa meter, which modern poetry has furnished, but is little, if at all, inferior to the Hexameter itself. A casual observer might perhaps think, that it is formed too much on the Iambic model, to produce effects similar to the epic verse of the ancients. A little attention to our best models will shew, that such is not the case. I grant at once, that as, on the one hand, the English measure is capable of all the solemn slow movement of the Iambic, so, on the other hand, it cannot equal the rapidity of the Hexameter. The rhvthm of lines such as the following.

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