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

When the owls forbore a term,

You heard music—that was I!"

—A Serenade.

"When the spider to serve his ends,

By a sudden thread,

Arms and legs outspread,

On the table's midst descends—

Comes to find God knows what friends!"

—Mesmerism.

THE SIX-LINE STANZA.