Hark, that low dismal chime!
’Tis the dreary voice of Time.
Oh, bring beauty, bring roses,
Bring all that yet is ours;
Let life’s day, as it closes,
Shine to the last through flowers.
Similar stanzas corresponding to the formulas a ~ b a ~ b2 c c4 d ~ e d ~ e2, a ~ b ~ a ~ b c ~ d c ~ d2 e e4, a b a b c d c d4 e3 e4 and a ~ b a ~ b4 c ~4 d3 c ~4 d3 c ~4 d3, are used by the same poet in With Moonlight Beaming, The Young Indian Maid, Guess, guess, and from this Hour.
Many stanzas of this group with an isometrical first part are formed by combination with a tail-rhyme stanza, which then generally forms the cauda, as in one of Cunningham’s stanzas, viz. in Newcastle Beer (Poets, x. 729), the stanza consisting of four- and two-stressed verses on the scheme a b a b4 c c2 d4 e e2 d4:
When fame brought the news of Great-Britain’s success,
And told at Olympus each Gallic defeat;