As his corpse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O’er the grave where our hero we buried.
In other poems there are masculine rhymes only, as in Cowper (p. 429).
Stanzas of this structure, composed of trochaic verses or of trochaic mixed with iambic or of dactylic mixed with iambic-anapaestic verses, are not frequent. (For examples see Metrik, ii, § 292.)
§ 248. Some other analogical developments from this type, however, occur pretty often; a stanza of alternate four- and two-foot verses (a4 b ~2 a4 b ~2) is used, for example, by Ben Jonson (Poets, iv. 545):
Weep with me all you that read
This little story;
And know, for whom a tear you shed,
Death’s self is sorry.