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occur here and there in the plays. They must not be confounded
with female lines with two extra syllables (see on i above) or with
other lines in which two extra unaccented syllables may occur.
9. Incomplete verses, of one or more syllables, are scattered
through the plays. See iii. 4. 11, 76, 90, 96, etc.
10. Doggerel measure is used in the very earliest comedies
(Z. Z. Z. and C. of E. in particular) in the mouths of comic char-
acters, but nowhere else in those plays, and never anywhere in
plays written after 1598. There is none in the present play.
11. Rhyme occurs frequently in the early plays, but diminishes
with comparative regularity from that period until the latest.
Thus, in Z. Z. Z. there are about 1 100 rhyming verses (about one-
third of the whole number), in M. N. D. about 900, in Rich. II.
and R. and J. about 500 each, while in Cor. and A. and C. there
are only about 40 each, in Temp, only two, and in W. T. none
at all, except in the chorus introducing act iv. Songs, interludes,
and other matter not in ten-syllable measure are not included in
this enumeration. In the present play (which is mostly in prose),
out of about 275 ten-syllable verses, only sixty-five are in rhyme.
Alternate rhymes are found only in the plays written before 1599
or 1600. In M. of V. there are only four lines at the end of iii. 2.
In Much Ado and A. Y. L. we also find a few lines, but none at
all in subsequent plays.
Rhymed couplets^ or " rhyme-tags," are often found at the end of
scenes ; as in 3 of the 23 scenes of the present play. In Ham.
14 out of 20 scenes, and in Macb. 21 out of 28, have such " tags ; "
but in the latest plays they are not so frequent. In Temp., for
instance, there is but one, and in W. T. none.
12. In this edition of Shakespeare, the final -ed of past tenses
and participles in verse is printed -d when the word is to be pro-
nounced inthe ordinary way ; as in gaWd (iii. 4. 5) and disposed
(iii. 4. 73). But when the metre requires that the -ed be made
a separate syllable, the e is retained; as in sealed (iii. 4. 16),
where the word is a dissyllable. The only variation from this rule
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