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

To churlish nature and the wide world's fretting,

For alien pity and unnatural care;

Alas! to see how the cold dew kept wetting

His childish coats, and dabbled all his hair

Like gossamers across his forehead fair."

—Hood, Midsummer Fairies.

The Spenserian has the same arrangement of the rhymes, but has an extra foot in the last line. The two last lines of a stanza from "Childe Harold" will illustrate this:—

"To mingle with the universe and feel

What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal."

—Byron.