PLEASE USE YOUR BROWSER'S BACK ARROW TO RETURN TO THE TABLE.

Although they waver, Robert Browning's lines in "A Grammarian's Funeral" seem dominantly dactylic tetrameter and dimeter. He may have intended every second line to resemble something like the rhythm in a sapphic stanza, however:  / * * / *.

                           Let us begin and carry up this corpse,
                                    Singing together.
                            Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes
                                    Each in its tether
                            Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain,
                                    Cared-for till cock-crow:
                            Look out if yonder be not day again
                                    Rimming the rock-row!