Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

In a poem whose verses consist of eight, the double rhymes require nine; as,

"When hard Words, Jealousies, and Fears,

Set Folks together by the ears;

And made 'em fight, like mad, or drunk,

For Dame Religion as for Punk;

Whose honesty they all durst swear for,

Tho' not a Man of 'em knew wherefore:

Then did Sir Knight abandon Duelling,

And out he rode a Colonelling."—Hudibras.

In a poem whose verses consist of seven, the double rhymes require eight; as,