For similar examples see Metrik, ii, § 424.

Other stanzas are formed by combination with a complete or a shortened tail-rhyme stanza; so that we have schemes like a a4 b3 c c4 b3 d d d4, a ~ a ~ b c ~ c ~ b4 d ~ d ~2 b4, a a2 b4 c c2 b4 d d2 b4. They occur in Carew (Poets, iii. 709), Dryden (p. 368), and Thackeray (p. 237). The formula a4 b3 a4 b3 c d c c4 d3 we find in Campbell (p. 82), a4 b3 a4 b3 c c4 b3 d d4 in Byron’s Ode to Napoleon (p. 273):

’Tis done—but yesterday a King!

And arm’d with Kings to strive—

And now thou art a nameless thing;

So abject—yet alive!

Is this the man of thousand thrones,

Who strew’d our earth with hostile bones,

And can he thus survive?

Since he, miscall’d the Morning Star,