With sin and care oppressed;
Lord, send Thy promised Comforter,
And lead us to Thy rest.
The same form of stanza was used in Hood’s well-known Song of the Shirt (p. 183).
Other stanzas of similar structure are given with specimens in Metrik, ii, §§ 300, 301; their formulas are a4 a4 b2 b5 c4 c4 d2 d5, a b a4 b3 c d c4 d3 (Moore, Dreaming for ever), a3 b b4 a3 c3 d d4 c3, a b a3 b2 c d c3 d2, a3 b2 c4 a2 d3 b2 c4 d2; in the same place we have mentioned some ten-lined stanzas of the forms a a4 b b2 a4 c c4 d d2 c4 (Moore, The Young May Moon) and a3 a2 b5 b2 c4 d3 d2 e5 e2 c4, &c.
CHAPTER IV
ONE-RHYMED INDIVISIBLE AND BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED STANZAS
§ 251. These different kinds of stanzas may be conveniently treated together, since they are closely allied with each other, in that both of them—the indivisible stanzas usually, and the bipartite unequal-membered stanzas frequently—exhibit a one-rhymed principal part.