7. Spenserian stanza.—Eight lines of heroics closed by an Alexandrine. There are varieties of this metre according to the interval of the rhymes.
8. Terza rima.—Taken from the Italian, where it is the metre of Dante's Divina Commedia. Heroics with three rhymes recurring at intervals.—Lord Byron's Prophecy of Dante.
9. Poulterer's measure.—Alexandrines and service measures alternately. Found in the poetry of Henry the Eighth's time.
10. Ballad metre.—Stanzas of four lines; the first and third having four, the second and fourth having three measures each. Rhymes alternate.
Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,
And guide thy lonely way,
To where yon taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.
Edwin and Angelina.