An’ grate our lug,
I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us,
In glass or jug.
The same form of stanza is used by Wordsworth and by M. Arnold in his poem Kaiser Dead (p. 495).
The same stanza sometimes occurs with the order of the parts inverted like a4 b3 a a a4 b3, e.g. in Longfellow’s Voices of the Night (p. 40).
Other unequal-membered varieties of the anisometrical tail-rhyme stanza correspond to a a3 b5 a a5 b6 (cf. the chapter on the Spenserian stanza and its imitations), a a b c c4 b3 (M. Arnold, Horatian Echo, p. 47), a a b c c3 b5, a5 a3 b5 c c b5, a4 a2 b4 c2 c5 b4, a4 b3 a c c4 b3 (entwined frons), a a4 b3 c3 b4 c5 (entwined cauda).
For examples see Metrik, ii, § 343.
Here again we must mention stanzas which in their structure are influenced by the tail-rhyme stanza and are formed on the scheme a b c a b c; of these we have several examples in G. Herbert, on the scheme a b c5 a b4 c5, e.g. in Magdalena (p. 183):
When blessed Marie wip’d her Saviour’s feet,