16 DECEMBER 1922, Page 17

DACTYLIC VERSE 1N ENGLISH.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sta,—In reply to Mr. Strachey's challenge, Mr. Edmund Gosse might have quoted, as an example of English verse in "pure dactylics," Heber's well-known hymn, "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning," the lines of which each contains three dactyls, and end, alternately, with a trochee and a long syllable.—! am, Sir, &c., T. S.