A manual of composition and rhetoric:

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p. 238

Thus, in the lines here given, No 1 is lambic tetrameter, No 2 is Trochaic tetrameter, No 3 is Anapæstic tetrameter (the additional syllable at the end making up for the syllable wanting at the beginning), and No 4 is Dactylic trimeter, with two syllables over. 4 In case of the passage rhyming, the rhyme should be described as being in couplets, quatrains, sonnet-metre, &c, and the formula for the rhyme and the stanza should be given, as on pages 229, 230, 231, 233-235.] 1.