Model Verse I:

Virginal Lilian, rigidly, humblily dutiful;
            Saintlily, lowlily,
            Thrillingly, holily
Beautiful!

Model Verse II:

The un | ima | gina | ble might | of Jove.

Model Verse III:

Can it be | fancied that | Deit? | ever vin | dictively |
Made in his | image a | mannikin | merely to | madden it? |

Model Verse IV:

See the | delicate | footed | rein-deer. |

Model Verse V:

Model Verse VI:

I have | a lit | tle step | son | of on | ly three | years old. |

Model Verse VII:

Pale as a | lily was | Emily | Gray .

Model Verse VIII:

Do tell! | when may we | hope to make | men of sense | out of the | Pundits |
Born and brought | up with their | snouts deep | down in the | mud of the | Frog-pond?
Why ask? | who ever | yet saw | money made | out of a | fat old —
Jew, or | downright | upright | nutmegs | out of a | pine-knot? |

Trechos retirados do ensaio de Poe publicado em "Notes Upon English Verse", na revista "Pioneer" de James R. Lowell, em Março de 1843.