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

My measures ravishing."

—Herrick, Hesperides.

Tetrameter (seven-syllabled).

"O, thou child of many prayers,

Life hath quicksands, life hath snares,

Care and age come unawares."

—Longfellow, Maidenhood.

Octameter (fifteen syllabled).

"Was a lady such a lady, cheeks so round and lips so red—

On her neck the small face buoyant, like a bell-flower o'er its bed,