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In later times of Rome, both Seneca and Prudentius wrote choriambic verse with a fair amount of success.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

The choriambic I thought might be exchanged for a heroic stanza, in which the first line should rhyme with the fourth, the second with the third, a kind of "In Memoriam" elongated.

From The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by Conington, John