... severed tress, or the rind of an apple when flung to the floor. This type of verse was rarely attempted by Longfellow, but he chose it most appropriately for Seaweed and in some degree succeeded. Poe himself in his waywardness could not adhere to it when he reached it, and after giving us in the original form of Lenore, as published in The Pioneer, perhaps the finest piece of lyric measure in ou...