Or pássed nót to spót
My fáith and hónestý:
Yét were my fáncy stránge, &c.
We seldom find three-foot verses with disyllabic rhymes throughout. There is, on the other hand, in lyrical poetry a predilection for stanzas in which disyllabic rhymes alternate with monosyllabic, as, for instance, in Sheffield, On the Loss of an only Son:
Our mórning’s gáy and shíning,
The dáys our jóys decláre;
At évening nó repíning,
And níght’s all vóid of cáre.
A fónd transpórted móther