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

But if they follow one of ten syllables, the inequality of the measure renders them less agreeable; as,

"While all thy Province, Nature, I survey, }

And sing to Memmius an immortal Lay }

Of Heav'n and Earth; and everywhere thy wonderous Pow'r display." }

—Dryden.

Especially if it be the last of a couplet only; as,

"With Court-Informer's Haunts, and Royal Spies,

Things done relates, not done she feigns, and mingles Truth

with Lies."

—Dryden.