[A. E. Stallings]

Well, we shall have to agree to disagree on the Justice! I also have to say that Tennyson does seem to me to be using quantity (perhaps in addition to accent)--syllables long according to the Latin system by either vowel/dipthong or position (syllables followed by two consonants). Surely the fact that this was published (and an Alcaic and Hexameter exercise ) under the title, "Attempts at Classical Metres in Quantity" would confirm that. I don't think it is tongue-in-cheek, but an actual effort in that direction.

It seems to me that it is also no accident that the successful syllabics we have been looking at--at least I think they are successful--are by poets also skilled in traditional metrics.