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Phoebus with Admetus.

The measure runs:

– ⏑ – ⏑ – – ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ –
 – ⏑ – ⏑ – – ⏑ –́ –́ –́

Melampus.

⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ –
 ⏑ – ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ –

Love in the Valley:

Trochaic, variable in short syllables according to stress of the accent.

A sketch of this poem appeared in a volume published many years back, now extinct.