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

EXAMPLES.

THE COUPLET OR DISTICH.[^[12]]

Dimeter (four-syllabled).

"Here, here I live

And somewhat give."

—Herrick, Hesperides.

Tetrameter (eight-syllabled).

"His tawny beard was th' equal grace

Both of his wisdom and his face."

—Butler, Hudibras.