Washing the foot of pleasure’s sacred hill;
There little Love sore wounded lies,
His bow and arrows broken,
Bedew’d with tears from Venus’ eyes;
Oh! grievous to be spoken.
Other schemes that occur are: a b a b c5 d3 c5 d3, a b a b c d c4 d3, a b a b c c d4 d3, a b a b4 c c2 d d4, a b a4 b3 c c d d4, a ~ b a ~ b3 c4 d3 d4 d3, a b ~ a b ~3 c4 d ~3 c4 d ~3, a ~ b c ~ b d ~ e3 f4 e3, a ~ b a ~ b3 c d c4 d3, a ~ b a ~ b c ~ d c ~4 d5 (M. Arnold, p. 2), &c.; for numerous examples see Metrik, ii, §§ 412, 414, 415.
Sometimes stanzas occur, the isometrical part of which forms the cauda, as on the scheme a4 b3 a4 b3 c c d d4 in Moore, Sovereign Woman:
The dance was o’er, yet still in dreams,
That fairy scene went on;
Like clouds still flushed with daylight gleams,