That way it went, but thou shalt find
No track is left behind.
Similar stanzas are found in later poets, as e.g. Mrs. Hemans, D. G. Rossetti, Mrs. Browning, corresponding to a5 b b4 a5 c4 c5, a3 b b5 a3 c c5, a5 b b3 a4 c5 c3, a3 b4 b5 a4 b5 a3, a b3 b4 a3 c c4, &c. (For specimen see Metrik, ii, § 458.)
Even more frequently we have stanzas of three quite heterogeneous parts; the lines rhyming crosswise, parallel, or crosswise and parallel. They occur both in the earlier poets (Cowley, Herbert, &c.) and in those of recent times (Southey, Wordsworth, Shelley, the Brownings, Swinburne, &c.). A song by Suckling (Poets, iii. 730) on the scheme a3 a b b2 c c4 may serve as an example:
If when Don Cupid’s dart
Doth wound a heart,
We hide our grief
And shun relief;
The smart increaseth on that score;