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

Spread a vapour, soft and blue,

In long and sloping lines."

—Longfellow, Prelude.

The following form may be looked upon as Burns's exclusively:—

"Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower,—

Thou'st met me in an evil hour,

For I maun crush among the stour

Thy slender stem;

To spare thee now is past my power,

Thou bonnie gem."