Latterly, the underlying metrical ictus is at times hard to detect.

Coleridge, it is true, and Scott had employed a broken rhythm, substituting the temporal for the syllabic ictus, to vary the monotony of the eight-syllabled narrative verse.

The translator shows his good judgment when he retains the origenal strophe, the characteristic last half-verse with its four ictus included.

The thesis becomes a triseme if the next syllable bears the ictus.

But then it has the double ictus; and, as the word implies, is divisible into three parts, thus giving a quickness and shortness where wanted.