We did ’bide,
From dear Juda far absented,
Tearing the air with our cries,
And our eyes
With their streams his stream augmented.
The same stanza we find in Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, v (p. 552). Similar stanzas are quoted in Metrik, ii, § 289, their schemes being a3 a2 b3 c3 c2 b3, a3 a2 b5 c3 c2 b5, a4 b3 b2 a4 c3 c2 (the tail-rhyme verse put in front)
§ 246. There are also some stanzas (a b4 c3 a b4 c3) which may be looked upon as modelled on the tail-rhyme stanza; such a stanza we find in Mrs. Browning’s poem, A Sabbath morning at Sea (iii. 74); its formula being a b4 c3 a b4 c3:
The ship went on with solemn face:
To meet the darkness on the deep,
The solemn ship went onward: