The poem introduced the "Gondibert stanza", a decasyllabic quatrain in pentameters rhyming abab. It was adopted by Waller in ' (1655) and by John Dryden in ' and '. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester uses it satirically in '. According to the "Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature" "Dryden revives this measure to make his peace with the 1650s and advertise his bid to continue Davenant's Laureate project, but it would soon be wickedly parodied in Rochester's 'Disabled Debauchee'."