She’s broken her vow, she’s broken my heart,
And I may e’en gae hang.
A coof cam in wi’ rowth o’ gear,
And I hae tint my dearest dear,
But woman is but warld’s gear,
Sae let the bonie lass gang.
Other stanzas of this class correspond to the formulas a4 b3 a4 b3 a a a4 b3, a ~4 b2 a ~4 b3 c ~ c ~ c ~4 b2, a3 b2 a3 b2 c c c3 b2. For examples see Metrik, ii, § 419.
There is another form of stanza the first part of which according to the Middle English usage consists of a complete tail-rhyme stanza (cf. the ten-lined stanzas of this group), while the cauda is formed by a rhyming couplet, so that its structure corresponds to the scheme a a4 b3 a a4 b3 c c4; it occurs in Spenser, Epigrams, ii (p. 586):
As Diane hunted on a day,
She chaunst to come where Cupid lay,