Though day itself is gone.
And gracefully to music’s sound,
The same bright nymphs went gliding round;
While thou, the Queen of all, wert there—
The fairest still, where all were fair.
For examples of other forms (a b a4 b2 c d C D4, a ~3 b4 a ~3 b4 c b c b4, a4 b3 c4 b3 d e d e3, &c.) see Metrik, ii, §§ 413, 416..
§ 277. Very frequently stanzas occur which are of an entirely anisometrical structure in both parts. To this group belong the first tripartite anisometrical stanzas of the Middle English period, contained in Wright’s Spec. of Lyr. Poetry, p. 111 (two songs). Their stanzaic form (a4 b3 a4 b3 b b5 c7 c5) is also of great importance, on account of the fact that the first five-foot verses as yet known in English poetry occur in the cauda of these stanzas. The first strophe may serve as an example:
Lutel wot hit anymon,
Hou loue hym haueþ ybounde,
Þat for us oþe rode ron,