王侯用詩形
「a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E」という押韻構成を持つ11行から成る5つのスタンザ(五連11行)と、「d-d-e-d-E」という押韻構成の5行のアンヴォワもしくは「c-c-d-d-e-d-E」という押韻構成の7行のアンヴォワから構成される。
He scares the Virgin at the convent grate;
The Maid half-won, the Lover passionate;
He hath no grace for weakness and decay:
The tender Wife, the Widow bent and gray,
The feeble Sire whose footstep faltereth,--
All these he leadeth by the lonely way . . .
There is no King more terrible than Death.
(アンヴォワ)
Youth, for whose ear and monishing of late, - (c)
I sang of Prodigals and lost estate, - (c)
Have thou thy joy of living and be gay; - (d)
But know not less that there must come a day,-- - (d)
Aye, and perchance e'en now it hasteneth,-- - (e)
When thine own heart shall speak to thee and say,-- - (d)
There is no King more terrible than Death. - (E)
-- ヘンリー・オースティン・ドブソン(en:Henry Austin Dobson)『The Dance of Death』