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

Swinburne's "To a Cat" is mostly trochaic tetrameters, with one dimeter line per stanza; he cuts the line short one syllable by catalexis, as is common in trochaic meter.

                                  /       *  |  /    * |  /    *  | /      (*)
                           STATELY, kindly, lordly friend,
                                      Condescend
                            Here to sit by me, and turn
                            Glorious eyes that smile and burn,
                            Golden eyes, love's lustrous meed,
                            On the golden page I read.