Wíth his own óxen tílls his síre’s left lánds,
And ís not ín the úsurer’s bánds;
Nor sóldier-líke, stárted with róugh alárms,
Nor dréads the séa’s enráged hárms, &c.
He used the reverse order in Odes iv. 1. In Wordsworth’s poem The Gipsies (iv. 68) we have the couplets: a a5 b b4 c c5 d d4, &c., but not divided into stanzas.
Five- and three-foot lines a5 a3 b5 b3 c5 c3 d5 d3, &c., occur in Ben Jonson, The Forest, XI. Epode (Poets, vi, pp. 555–6); and with reverse order (a3 a5 b3 b5 c3 c5, &c.) in his Epigrams (Poets, iv. 546).
The combination of five- and two-foot lines seems to occur in modern poets only; e.g. in W. S. Landor, Miscellanies, clxxv (ii. 649):
Néver may stórm thy péaceful bósom véx,
Thou lóvely Éxe!
O’er whóse pure stréam that músic yésterníght