For specimens of the other subordinate varieties and of the rare twelve-lined stanza (a4 b3 c4 b3 d4 b3 e4 f3 d4 f3 g4 f3 and a4 b ~3 a4 b ~3 a4 b ~3 c4 d ~3 c4 d ~3 c4 d ~3) see Metrik, ii, §§ 295, 296
§ 250. There are also doubled forms of the before-mentioned analogical development of the Septenary, the schemes of which are as follows:
a4 b ~2 a4 b ~2 a4 b ~2 a4 b ~2, a3 b ~2 a3 b ~2 c3 d ~2 c3 d ~2, a ~2 b3 a ~2 b3 c ~2 d3 c ~2 d3, a ~4 b5 a ~4 b5 c ~4 d5 c ~4 d5, and a5 a4 b5 b4 c5 c4 d5 d4.
We must here refer to some eight-lined stanzas which have this common feature that the two half-stanzas are exactly alike, but the half-stanzas themselves consist of unequal members. These, however, will be treated in the next chapter.
In this connexion may be also mentioned the doubled Poulter’s Measure, which occurs somewhat frequently, as in Hymns Ancient and Modern, No. 149:
Thou art gone up on high,
To mansions in the skies;
And round Thy Throne unceasingly
The songs of praise arise.
But we are lingering here,