“Each sub | st~ance of | a grief | hath twen | -ty shad_ows_,
    Which show | like grief | itself, | but are | not so: 
    For sor | -row’s eye, | gl=az~ed | with blind | -ing tears,
    Divides one thing | entire | to man |—­y ob_j~ects_;
    Like per | -spectives, | which, right | -ly gaz’d | upon,
    Show noth | -ing but | confu | -sion; ey’d | awry,
    Distin | -guish form:  | so your | sweet maj | -esty,
    Lo=ok~ing | awry | upon | your lord’s | depart_~ure_,
    Finds shapes | of grief, | more than | himself, | to wail;
    Which, look’d | on as | it is, | is nought | but shad_~ows_.” 
        SHAKSPEARE:  Richard II, Act ii, Sc. 2.

Example II.—­A Wish to Please.

   “O, that | I had | the art | of eas | -y writing
      What should | be eas | -y read | -ing | could | I scale
    Parnas | -sus, where | the Mus | -es sit | in_diting_
      Those pret | -ty po | -ems nev | -er known | to fail,
    How quick | -ly would | I print | (the world | de_lighting_)
      A Gre | -cian, Syr | -ian, or | Assy | -ian tale;
    And sell | you, mix’d | with west | -ern sen | -ti_mentalism_,
    Some sam | -ples of | the fin | -est O | -ri_entalism_.” 
        LORD BYRON:  Beppo, Stanza XLVIII.

MEASURE V.—­IAMBIC OF FOUR FEET, OR TETRAMETER.

Example I.—­Presidents of the United States of America.

   “First stands | the loft | -y Wash | -ington,
    That no | -ble, great, | immor | -tal one;
    The eld | -er Ad | -ams next | we see;
    And Jef | -ferson | comes num | -ber three;
    Then Mad | -ison | is fourth, | you know;
    The fifth | one on | the list, | Monroe;
    The sixth | an Ad | -ams comes | again;
    And Jack | -son, sev | -enth in | the train;
    Van Bu | -ren, eighth | upon | the line;
    And Har | -rison | counts num | -ber nine;
    The tenth | is Ty | -ler, in | his turn;
    And Polk, | elev | -enth, as | we learn;
    The twelfth | is Tay | -lor, peo | -ple say;
    The next | we learn | some fu | -ture day.” 
        ANONYMOUS:  From Newspaper, 1849.

Example II.—­The Shepherd Bard.

   “The bard | on Ett | -rick’s moun | tain green
    In Na | -ture’s bo | -som nursed | had been,
    And oft | had marked | in for | -est lone
    Her beau | -ties on | her moun | -tain throne;
    Had seen | her deck | the wild | -wood tree,
    And star | with snow | -y gems | the lea;
    In love | _-li~est c=ol_ | -ours paint | the plain,
    And sow | the moor | with pur | -ple grain;
    By gold | -en mead | and moun | -tain sheer,
    Had viewed | the Ett | -rick wav | -ing clear,
    Where shad | _-=ow=y fl=ocks_ | of pur | -est snow
    Seemed graz | -ing in | a world | below.” 
        JAMES HOGG:  The Queen’s Wake, p. 76.