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

Of your yellow bark, O birch-tree!

Growing by the rushing river,

Tall and stately in the valley."

—Longfellow, Hiawatha.

9. "Heard he that cry of pain; and through the hush that succeeded

Whisper'd a gentle voice, in accents tender and saintlike,

'Gabriel, oh, my beloved!' and died away into silence."

—Longfellow, Evangeline.

An extremely musical form of blank verse, the trochaic, will be found in Browning's "One Word More":—

"I shall never in the years remaining,