The rhyme-scheme, then, would be a b a, b c b, c d c, etc.,

Rhymes are called feminine, if the rhyme words end in a vowel.

The verses are in the same metre and rhyme-system as Sir Eustace, and treat of precisely the same class of visions as recorded by the inmate of the asylum.

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As a native rhyme runs: "After Malachy, son of Donald, Each man ruled his own tribe, But no man ruled Erin.

In the stanza from Wordsworth, you have changed DAY into AIR for rhyme-sake: DAY is the right reading, and I IMPLORE you to restore it.

Indeed an old rhyme current at the end of the eighteenth century anticipated some of Lamb's humour, for the two principal landlords of Worthing, which was just then beginning to be a fashionable resort, were named Hogsflesh and Bacon, leading to the quatrain: Brighton is a pretty street, Worthing is much taken; If you can't get any other meat There's Hogsflesh and Bacon.

That exception is his quoting from one of Shakspeare's sonnets the rhyme doting and nothing.

It would hardly be reasonable to attribute his laxity in rhyming to either carelessness, indifference, or unskilfulness: but rather to a deliberate preference for a certain variety in the rhyme-soundsas tending to please the ear, and availing to satisfy it in the total effect, without cloying it by any tight-drawn uniformity.

'That soft and rounded rhyme suits ill with Sappho's fitful and wayward agonies.

Yet because I have a Friend,I know in what curious and extended order the verses come, and how the tunes come first, and the various voices next, and the words last, and how a good rhyme warms you like a fire, and how the tunes fall away when the thing is finished, and how ready-made it all is really, and yet how tired you feel...." To Mr. Russell it all seemed true, and part of the miracle.

One little fact only with regard to the rhymes, common to this and the next poem, and usual enough in Norman verse, may be pointed out, namely, that every line in the stanza ends with the same rhyme-sound as the corresponding line in each of the other stanzas.

Alas, the envious time is fleeting, But your heart is beating in time with mine, And Cupid's rhyme rings louderclearer, As I draw you nearer, my love divine!