Lovers have in their hearts a clock still going;
For though time be nimble, his motions
Are quicker
And thicker
Where love hath its notions.
Other bob-wheel stanzas in Suckling show the schemes A A4 a2 b b3 (ib. iii. 740), A A A4 B B5 c2 c1 C D4 d2 (ib. iii. 729), A A B B4 c1 c d2 D5 (ib. 739).
More similar to the older forms is a stanza of a song in Dryden formed after A A B B C4 d d e e2 e3 (p. 339).
In Modern poetry such stanzas are used especially by Burns, Scott, and sometimes by Moore. So we have in Burns a fine simple stanza on the model A4 B3 A4 B3 c1 B3, similar to the Shoreham stanza (cf. § [264]):
It was a’ for our rightfu’ king
We left fair Scotland’s strand,