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

"From Diamond Quarries hewn, and Rocks of Gold."—Milton.

"With Poppies, Daffadils, and Violets join'd."—Tate.

"With vain, but violent force their Darts they flung."—Cowley.

"His Ephod, Mitre, well-cut Diadem on."—Cowley.

"My blushing Hyacinths, and my Bays I keep."—Dryden.

Sometimes as three; as,

"A Mount of Rocky Diamond did rise."—Blac.

"Hence the blue Violet and blushing Rose."—Blac.

"And set soft Hyacinths of Iron blue."—Dryden.

When they are used but as two syllables they suffer an elision of one of their vowels, and are generally written thus, di'mond, vi'let, &c.