选自吴翔林著，《英诗格律及自由诗》，北京：商务印书馆，1993年

八行诗节有几种较为常见的押韵格式：

1．  abababcc，此押韵格式与“英雄诗行”（抑扬格五音步诗行）的组合叫ottava rima("八行三韵体”)。起源于意大利，十六世纪初传入英国。拜伦长诗《堂·璜》即采用这一体裁。

2． abcbddee

BEHOLD her, single in the field, 

  Yon solitary Highland Lass!    

Reaping and singing by herself;   

  Stop here, or gently pass!      

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,              5

And sings a melancholy strain;    

O listen! for the Vale profound   

Is overflowing with the sound.    

Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper

3． ababccdd

Will no one tell me what she sings?—  

  Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow  

For old, unhappy, far-off things,  

  And battles long ago:                   20

Or is it some more humble lay,  

Familiar matter of to-day?  

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,  

That has been, and may be again?

Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper

4． ababcdcd

Thou ling'ring star, with lessening ray,

That lov'st to greet the early morn,

Again thou usher'st in the day

My Mary from my soul was torn.

O Mary! dear departed shade!

Where is thy place of blissful rest?

See'st thou thy lover lowly laid?

Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?

Burns, Thou Ling’ring Star

5． abcbdefe

"Oh, Men, with Sisters dear!

Oh, men, with Mothers and Wives!

It is not linen you're wearing out,

But human creatures' lives!

Stitch — stitch — stitch,

In poverty, hunger and dirt,                         30

Sewing at once, with a double thread,

A Shroud as well as a Shirt.

Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt

此外，另有aabbccdd, abcbdbeb, ababbcbc等押韵格式。