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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Model Verses” and “Evangeline” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: ["Model Verses" and "Evangeline"] — November-December 1846 — in "The Rationale of Verse" — manuscript — Text 01  (Mabbott text A) [Model I - Triple-rhymed natural-dactylic lines]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments) [Model II - An Iambic line with "no natural feet"]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments) [Model III - Dactylic lines with "natural feet"]  (This is the only example which exists in the surviving fragments, and that is only in a repetition of the second line) [Model IV - A Trochaic line]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments) [Model V - A line demonstrating the "error . . . of commencing a rhythm . . . with a 'bastard' foot' "]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments) [Model VI - A line demonstrating   (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments) [Model VII - A line demonstrating a foot with the value of four short syllables  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments) [Model VIII - "Evangeline" or "a truly Greek hexameter"]  (not part of the surviving manuscript fragments) ["Model Verses" and "Evangeline"] — October and November 1848 — in "The Rationale of Verse" — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02  (Mabbott text B) [Model I - Triple-rhymed natural-dactylic lines] [Model II - An Iambic line with "no natural feet"] [Model III - Dactylic lines with "natural feet"] [Model IV - A Trochaic line] [Model V - A line demonstrating the "error . . . of commencing a rhythm . . . with a 'bastard' foot' "] [Model VI - A line demonstrating [Model VII - A line demonstrating a foot with the value of four short syllables [Model VIII - "Evangeline" or "a truly Greek hexameter"] "Evangeline" — summer 1849 — in "Mem. for Philadelphia — manuscript — Text 03  (Mabbott text D) Reprints: ["Model Verses" and "Evangeline"] — 1850 — in "The Rationale of Verse" — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 02 — (Mabbott text C) [Model I - Triple-rhymed natural-dactylic lines] [Model II - An Iambic line with "no natural feet"] [Model III - Dactylic lines with "natural feet"] [Model IV - A Trochaic line] [Model V - A line demonstrating the "error . . . of commencing a rhythm . . . with a 'bastard' foot' "] [Model VI - A line demonstrating [Model VII - A line demonstrating a foot with the value of four short syllables [Model VIII - "Evangeline" or "a truly Greek hexameter"] "Model Verses" — 1969 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. I: Poems, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1:392-396) Associated Material and Special versions: None

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Bibliography: Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943. Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vol 1 Poems), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.

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