e | 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:--

"With