"The measure, as used by the early Greeks, is essentially lyrical and impassioned. Mingled with other metres, it was c…"

"Swinburne even introduced it into English poetry:— Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was made lovely, we thoug…"

"Professor Gilbert Murray, another good poet and Grecian, has kindly sent me verses composed in the same rhythm, but i…"

"The choriambic hexaplet is the basis of the following lines from Swinburne's Hesperia: Out of the golden remote wild …"

"The heptaplet with [a different] formula ... is found in Burns's Where are The Joys, etc.: Where are the joys I have …"

"Rupert Brooke experimented with accentual versions of choriambs, ... Brooke came up with lines like: Light-foot dance…"

"Levis exsurgit zephyrus Et sol procedit tepidus; Iam terra sinus aperit, Dulcore suo diffluit."

"O Roma nobilis, Orbis et domina, Cunctarum urbium Excellentissima, Roseo martyrum Albis et virginum Salutem dicimus T…"

"Iam, dulcis amica, venito, Quam sicut cor meum diligo; Intra in cubiculum meum, Ornamentis cunctis onustum."

"Dura materies ex matris ossibus Creavit homines iactis lapidibus. Ex quibus unus est iste puerulus, Qui lacrimabiles …"