We may, therefore, assume two epochs for the Saturnian verse. In the first epoch, until Livius and Saevius, its measure is yet very unsettled; the rhythm is, however, evidently trochaic. It usually corresponds to two ithyphallics, sometimes with, sometimes without an anacrusis before the first ithyphallic.

Now, the application of each of these predicates to X will be defeasible if his subsequent performance is inadequate when measured by a standard implicit in the things he didn't explicitly think about — if he goes on to misuse E, miscontinue the series, cannot whistle the tune, rejects Y's continuing '1002' after '1000' or shows he doesn't understand the rules of chess.

Stars shining bright above you / Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you / Birds singin' in the sycamore trees

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