You could not say in one short day
What love they bore each other.
A garland of seven lilies wrought!
Seven Sisters that together dwell;
But he, bold Knight as ever fought,
Their Father, took of them no thought,
He loved the wars so well.
Sing mournfully, oh! mournfully,
The solitude of Binnorie!
Other stanzas of this kind are formed on the schemes a4 b2 a4 b2 c c2 d3 e4 d2 e4 d2 (Moore, Love’s Young Dream), a b b a c c d e e d5 e3 (Swinburne, Ave atque Vale, Poems, ii. 71). Cf. Metrik, ii, §§ 436, 437.