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

—Cowley.

In the following example the like rhyme is to be observed, but the verses differ in measure from the former,

"Beneath this gloomy Shade,

By Nature only for my Sorrows made,

I'll spend this Voice in Cries;

In Tears I'll waste these Eyes,

By Love so vainly fed;

So Lust of old the Deluge punished.

Ah wretched Youth! said I;

Ah wretched Youth! twice did I sadly cry;