His quiver by his head:
One of his shafts she stole away,
And one of hers did close convay
Into the other’s stead:
With that Love wounded my Love’s hart
But Diane beasts with Cupid’s dart.
Similar stanzas of other metres are very frequently met with, as e.g. stanzas corresponding to the formulas a a4 b3 c c4 b3 d d5, a a3 b2 c c3 b2 d d6, a a2 b3 c c2 b3 b b7, and a ~ a ~4 b5 c ~ c ~4 b5 d d5. The reverse order (i.e. frons + two versus) we have in a a3 b b2 c3 b b2 c3 and a a5 b b3 c5 d d3 e5. For examples see Metrik, ii, § 420.
A stanza corresponding to the formula a b4 c3 a b4 c3 a4 D3 occurs in M. Arnold’s The Church of Brou (p. 17)
§ 279. Among stanzas of nine lines, those with parallel rhymes must again be mentioned first; as e.g. a strophe on the scheme a a b b c c d d4 d5, in Akenside, Book I, Ode X, To the Muse (Poets, ix. 780). Other stanzas occurring also in more recent poetry (Wordsworth, W. Scott) are on the schemes a a b b4 c c2 c d d4, a a b b c4 d3 c c4 d3, a4 b3 a a4 b3 c c d D4. For examples see Metrik, ii, § 421.
Similar stanzas, also with an isometrical first part, but with crossed rhymes, are not very often met with. The schemes are a b a b4 c c2 c d d4, a b a b c c d d4 d5, a b a b b c b b4 c3, a b a b c d c d4 e2, a4 b3 a a4 b3 c ~ d c ~ d4, &c. Specimens of them are also found in modern poets, as in Moore, Burns, Walter Scott, &c. For examples see Metrik, ii, § 422.