As to other schemes (a b a b b c d c d5, a b a b b c b c c5, a b a b c d c d R4, a b a b c d c d d4, &c.) cf. Metrik, ii, §§ 374–6
§ 271. A Middle English stanza of ten lines, similar to those of nine lines, is used by Chaucer in the Envoy to his Complaynt of Mars and Venus (a a b a a b b a a b5); another on the model a b a b b c c b b b4is found in a poem Long Life (E. E. T. S., 49, p. 156, quoted in Metrik, i. p. 421).
Some of the Modern English stanzas again are formed by combination with different varieties of the tail-rhyme stanza, as e.g. one according to the formula a a b ~ c c b ~ d d e e4 in Prior, The Parallel (Poets, vii. 507):
Prometheus, forming Mr. Day,
Carv’d something like a man in clay.
The mortal’s work might well miscarry;
He, that does heaven and earth control,
Alone has power to form a soul,
His hand is evident in Harry.
Since one is but a moving clod,