“When all | thy mer | -cies, O | my God! 
      My ris | -ing soul | surveys,
    Transport | -ed with | the view | I’m lost
      In won | -der, love, | and praise.”
        Addison’s Hymn of Gratitude.

    “John Gil | -pin was | a cit | -izen
      Of cred | -it and | renown,
    A train | -band cap | -tain eke | was he
      Of fam | -ous Lon | -don town.”
        Cowper’s Poems, Vol. i, p. 275.

    “God pros | -per long | our no | -ble king,
      Our lives | and safe | -ties all;
    A wo | -ful hunt | -ing once | there did
      In Chev | -y Chase | befall,”
        Later Reading of Chevy Chase.

    “Turn, An | -geli | -na, ev | -er dear,
      My charm | -er, turn | to see
    Thy own, | thy long | -lost Ed | -win here,
      Restored | to love | and thee.”
        Goldsmith’s Poems, p. 67.

    “‘Come back! | come back!’ | he cried | in grief,
       Across | this storm | -y wa_ter_: 
    ’And I’ll | forgive | your High | -land chief,
       My daugh | -ter!—­oh | my daugh_ter_! 
    ’Twas vain:  | the loud | waves lashed | the shore,
       Return | or aid | prevent_ing_:—­
     The wa | -ters wild | went o’er | his child,—­
       And he | was left | lament_ing_.”—­Campbell’s Poems, p. 110.

The rhyming of this last stanza is irregular and remarkable, yet not unpleasant.  It is contrary to rule, to omit any rhyme which the current of the verse leads the reader to expect.  Yet here the word “shore” ending the first line, has no correspondent sound, where twelve examples of such correspondence had just preceded; while the third line, without previous example, is so rhymed within itself that one scarcely perceives the omission.  Double rhymes are said by some to unfit this metre for serious subjects, and to adapt it only to what is meant to be burlesque, humorous, or satiric.  The example above does not confirm this opinion, yet the rule, as a general one, may still be just.  Ballad verse may in some degree imitate the language of a simpleton, and become popular by clownishness, more than by elegance:  as,

   “Father | and I | went down | to the camp
      Along | with cap | -tain Goodwin,
    And there | we saw | the men | and boys
      As thick | as hast | -y pudding;

And there | we saw | a thun | -dering gun,—­
It took | a horn | of powder,—­
It made | a noise | like fa | -ther’s gun,
Only | a na | -tion louder.”
Original Song of Yankee Doodle.

Even the line of seven feet may still be lengthened a little by a double rhyme:  as,

How gay | -ly, o | -ver fell | and fen, | yon sports | -man light
| is dashing! 
And gay | -ly, in | the sun | -beams bright, | the mow |—­er’s blade
| is flashing!

Of this length, T. O. Churchill reckons the following couplet; but by the general usage of the day, the final ed is not made a separate syllable:—­