A History of English Versification

by J. Schipper

Héar, my belóvëd, an old Milésian stóry!

Hígh and embósom’d in cóngregáted laúrels,

Glímmer’d a témple upón a bréezy héadland, &c.

Finally, the rhymed Choriambics may be mentioned, used also by Swinburne (Poems, ii. 141–3):

Lóve, what áiled thee to léave lífe that was máde lóvely, we thóught, with lòve?

Whát sweet vísions of sléep lúred thee awáy, dówn from the líght abòve?

Whát strànge fáces of dréams, vóices that cálled, hánds that were ráised to wàve,

Lúred or léd thee, alás, óut of the sún, dówn to the súnless gràve? &c.

§ 212. Among the classical stanzas, which may appropriately be discussed in this connexion, the Sapphic metre deserves the first place, as it has been imitated pretty often; its scheme is as follows: