Since writing the preface for my sketchbook, I have, of course, been involved in a number of more recent projects where I have sketched ideas for structural solutions.

1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance

Before dawn on Sunday ew had put Nagasaki behind us and were off on our 445 mile sail to Shanghai, regretful at leaving a country and a people who had entertained us so lavishly and free-heartedly for a week that always will be a luster of red letter days in the memory of all.

Of all the resolved feet, the Tribrach in Trochaic verse with its ictus on the first syllable ⏑́⏑⏑ is most readily recognised by the ear as equivalent to the Trochee.