Questions and Exercises on the foregoing. What is a poem? Are some poems longer than others? How do they differ in this respect? What are the subdivisions pertaining to poems? Are poems written in different ways, as respects the form, metre, &c.? How are larger poems commonly written? How smaller ones? What pertain to larger poems commonly? What is the argument? What is an episode? What the machinery? What the invoca tion? Who are the beings generally invoked by the poets? Who were those who were commonly invoked by the antient Greeks! Who were some of their principal gods and godesses? Who the muses? Are our poems of various kinds, in point of style, subject matter, $c.t What are some of the principal kinds? Proceed to give descriptions of the different kinds of poems, singly. Of the epic poem. The sentimental. The didactic. The narrative. The descriptive. The pathetic. The plaintive. The ethic. The tragedy. The comedy. Proceed to give descriptions of the sacred poems, in their various kinds Of the elegiac. Of the dramatic. Of the satiric. Of the pastoral. Give a description of the panegyric. The burlesque. The lampoon. Give a description of the fictitious poems, in their several kinds. Give a description of an oratorical poem. Of a lyric poem. Of odes in their various kinds. Of a sonnet. A monody. A ballad. A ditty. An amorous song. An epigram. A repartee. An acrostic. A compliment.' An enigma. A paradox. A simile. A motto. Are not some of our poems more or less miscellaneous and participating, in their character? Describe one which may be called a miscellaneous poem. What is meant by a poem's being of a participating character? APPENDIX. In the body of this work I have cited examples in verse for all the rules of versification; and these may serve also for examples in reading and scansion; but as some more of the kind may be found necessary as examples for the latter, the following pieces are added. MESSIAH. ▲ SACRED ECLOGUE.-Pope. YE nymphs of Solyma! begin the song: Rapt into future times, the bard begun; Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend. See nodding forests on the mountains dance: See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise, To leafless shrubs the flowery palm succeed, |