The Poulter’s Measure (§§ [146], [206]) must be mentioned in this place. This metre, also, is in narrative poetry employed without strophic arrangement; but in lyrical poetry it is sometimes written in stanzas. In this case it is mostly printed as a stanza of four lines, even when rhyming in long lines, i.e. with intermittent rhyme (a b3 c4 b3); e.g. in Tennyson, Marriage Morning (p. 285):
Light, so low upon earth,
You send a flash to the sun,
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.
The division into stanzas is still more distinctly recognizable when there are crossed rhymes (a b3 a4 b3), as e.g. in a song in Percy’s Reliques, I. ii. 2, The Aged Lover renounceth Love (quoted by the grave-digger in Shakespeare’s Hamlet):
I lothe that I did love,
In youth that I thought swete,
As time requires: for my behove
Me thinkes they are not mete.