Stanzas consisting of shorter lines are not so often met with; we have an example (on the model a b a2 b c4 c3) consisting of iambic-anapaestic verses in R. Browning, On the Cliff (vi. 48):
I leaned on the turf,
I looked at a rock
Left dry by the surf;
For the turf, to call it grass were to mock;
Dead to the roots, so deep was done
The work of the summer sun.
For stanzas on the schemes a4 b1 a4 b2 C D2, a b a4 c3 c b2 see ibid. § 464
§ 289. Among seven-line stanzas, both in earlier (Ph. Fletcher, S. Daniel, &c.) and more recent poets (Mrs. Browning, Swinburne, R. Browning, D.G. Rossetti), those which are entirely isometrical occur often. One on the model a b b a b b a5 is met with in S. Daniel’s Epistle to the Angel Spirit of the most excellent Sir Philip Sidney (Poets, iii. 228):