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For example, the first line of the following verse is a molossus:
:''Break, break, break,
:''On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
:''And I would that my tongue could utter
:''The thoughts that arise in me.
::'''Break, break, break'', Alfred Lord Tennyson , (in memory of Arthur Hallam )