on iesu be is þoht anon,
þat þerled was ys syde.
Similar stanzas occur also in Modern English; e.g. one on the formula a a2 b3 c c2 b3 d4 e3 d4 e3 in Burns (p. 255), another on the scheme a a2 b3 c c2 b3 d e3 d4 e3 (= Poulter’s Measure in the cauda), ib. p. 189.
Other ten-line stanzas consisting chiefly of Septenary verses or of Poulter’s Measure correspond to the formulas a4 b3 a4 b3 c4 d3 c4 d3 e e4, a b3 a4 b3 c d3 c4 d3 e e4, a b a4 b3 c d c4 d3 e e3. For examples, partly taken from Moore, see Metrik, ii, § 435.
Stanzas of this kind consisting of five-foot verses are rarely met with, e.g. a5 b3 a5 b3 c5 d3 c5 d3 e e4, a b4 a5 b4 c c d d e e5, a5 b3 a5 b3 c c4 d2 d5 e2 e5; as in Spenser and Browne (cf. Metrik, ii, § 434)
§ 282. Stanzas of eleven lines= are also rare. There is one with an isometrical first part (on the scheme a b a b5 c c2 c3 d2 d5 x2 d6) in Ben Jonson, Cynthia’s Revels (Poets, iv. 610); another in Campbell’s Gertrude of Wyoming (st. xxxv-xxxix), corresponding to the scheme a b a b4 c3 d d d4 c3 e e4.
Other stanzas of an almost entirely anisometrical structure consist of a combination with a tail-rhyme stanza, as e.g. a Middle English stanza on the scheme a a4 b3 a a4 b3 a4 b3 a a4 b3, with a regular tail-rhyme stanza representing the pedes, and a shortened tail- rhyme stanza representing the cauda; it occurs in the Towneley Mysteries, pp. 221–3. A similar one we have in Phineas Fletcher (Poets, iv. 460) on the formula a ~2 a ~3 b2 e ~2 e ~3 b2 d ~4 e ~ e ~2 d d5, and another one in Leigh Hunt, Coronation Soliloquy (p. 225) which corresponds to the formula a a2 b ~3 c c2 b ~3 d d2 e ~3 f4 e ~3.
In other stanzas parts only of tail-rhyme stanzas occur, as in a strophe of the form a4 b ~3 c4 b ~3 d e d d4 e3 r R4, used by Wordsworth in The Seven Sisters (iii. 15):
Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald,
All children of one mother: