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Nine-Line stanza (9 verses)

a) Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
b) You haste away so soon;
c) As yet the early rising sun
b) Has not attained his noon.
d) Stay, stay,
d) Until the hasting day
c) Has run
f) But to the even-song;
a) And having prayed together, we
f) Will go with you along.
- To Daffodils, Robert Herrick

Ballad stanza (Alternating verses of Iambic Trimeter and Iambic Tetrameter)

a) So far apart are we again (Iambic Tetrameter)
b) It is not fair I say (Iambic Trimeter)
a) For I was dealt a rotten hand, (Iambic Tetrameter)
b) And now I have to pay. (Iambic Trimeter)
- Ara John Movsesian

Limerick (5 verses with the rhyming word at the end of the first verse repeated in the last verse)

a) The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
a) Called a hen a most elegant creature.
b) The hen pleased with that,
b) Laid an egg in his hat-
a) And thus did the hen reward Beecher!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sonnet (14 verses - rhyming patterns are varied)

(a) Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
(b) Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
(a) Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
(b) And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
(c) Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
(d) And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
(c) And every fair from fair sometime declines,
(d) By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
(e) But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
(f) Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
(e) Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
(f) When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
(g) So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
(g) So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
- Sonnet XVIII William Shakespeare

There are many other variations which we will not discuss at this time.

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