Almost all the modern writers of classical metre had contented themselves with making an accented syllable long, an unaccented short; the most familiar specimens of hexameter, Longfellow's _Evangeline_ and Clough's _Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich_ and _Amours de Voyage_ were written on this principle, and, as a rule, stopped there. They almost invariably disregarded position, perhaps the most important element of quantity. In the first line of _Evangeline_--