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

That serving not—then proves if he his scent may foil."

—Drayton, Polyolbion.

Heptameter (fourteen-syllabled).

"Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are;

And glory to our sovereign liege, king Henry of Navarre."

—Macaulay, Battle of Ivry.

The couplet may also be formed of two lines of irregular length.

"Belovëd, O men's mother, O men's queen!

Arise, appear, be seen."

—Swinburne, Ode to Italy.