"Common metre stanzas consist of four Iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables.

Other extant verses of the period of his residence at Woodbridge show that he was making experiments in stanza-form on the model of earlier English poets, though without showing more than a certain imitative skill.

His sonnets are virtually three-stanza poems with a couplet for close, and he allows himself as many rhymes as he chooses.

Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought!

So it stands in the Fenwick note; but it should evidently read, "The following stanzas allude."Ed.]

During his stay in the Belgian capital lie paid a visit to the scene of Waterloo, wrote the famous stanzas beginning, "Stop, for thy tread is on an empire's dust!"

Note the flow and the ebb of the lines of each stanzafrom six to eight to ten syllables, and back through eight to six, the number of stanzas corresponding to the number of lines in each; only the poem itself begins with the ebb, and ends with a full spring-flow of energy.

The style of building which we now call Queen Elizabeth's, is here admirably described, both with regard to its beauties and defects; and the third and fourth stanzas delineate the fantastic manners of her time with equal truth and humour.

"Oh, Snatch'd away in Beauty's Bloom," "There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away," and from Don Juan, Canto III., the song inserted between stanzas lxxxvi.

Johnson says of Pope's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day:'The next stanzas place and detain us in the dark and dismal regions of mythology, where neither hope nor fear, neither joy nor sorrow can be found.' Works, viii.

From The Princess, read the lyrical songs; from In Memoriam, the parts numbered XLI., LIV., LVII., and CXXXI.; from Maud, the eleven stanzas beginning: "Come into the garden, Maud"; from The Idylls of the King, read Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur (Van Dyke's edition in Gateway Series); from his later poems, The Higher Pantheism, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, and Crossing the Bar.

Here, from another poem, are two little stanzas worth preserving: Yet God's must I remain, By death, by wrong, by shame; I cannot blot out of my heart That grace wrought in his name.

Some nine hundred different forms of stanza construction are to be found in the body of troubadour poetry, and few, if any schools of lyric poetry in the world, can show a higher degree of technical perfection in point of metrical diversity, complex stanza construction and accuracy in the use of rime.

page 59 6th stanza exquisite simile.