Thanks, all, for these further examples. Another one that occurs to me, although its rhyme scheme is irregular, is Amy Lowell's "Patterns."
Gregory, thanks for pointing me to the McNeice. (I had read KEB's essay, but I haven't yet read all of "Autumn Journal.") I want to think more about the different expectations I find I have with quatrains as opposed to couplets, and about the effect of differences in line length.
Jerome, I think another reason that this Nash is so prosey is that an absence of poetry--almost a tin ear for it--in this piece suits his purposes. The poem purports to be dismissing the worth of simile and metaphor, so it almost obliges itself to be colorless.
Janice, I think I have to read more Stevie Smith!
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