Eight-lined stanzas with the following schemes are not common:—a4 b3 c4 b3 a4 b3 c4 b3, a4 b3 a4 b3 c4 b3 c4 b3, a4 b3 a4 b3 a4 b3 a4 b3, a ~3 b4 a ~3 b4 c ~3 d4 c ~3 d4, a4 b3 c4 b3 d4 e3 f4 e3. Only in the last stanza and in the usual form a b a b c d c d we find trochaic and iambic-anapaestic verses. An example of the latter sort which is pretty often met with we have in Cunningham’s The Sycamore Shade (Poets, x. 717):
T’other day as I sat in the sycamore shade,
Young Damon came whistling along,
I trembled—I blush’d—a poor innocent maid!
And my heart caper’d up to my tongue:
Silly heart, I cry’d, fie! What a flutter is here!
Young Damon designs you no ill,
The shepherd’s so civil, you’ve nothing to fear,
Then prythee, fond urchin, lie still.