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

"Not the silver Doves that fly,

Yoak'd in Cythera's Car;

Nor the Wings that lift so high,

And convey her Son so far,

Are so lovely sweet and fair,

Or do more ennoble Love;

Are so choicely match'd a Pair,

Or with more consent do move."—Waller.

Note.—That it is absolutely necessary that both the construction and sense should end with the stanza, and not fall into the beginning of the following one as it does in the last example, which is a fault wholly to be avoided.

Section III.—Of the stanzas of six verses.