To thee, pure spir’t, to thee alone addrest
Is this joint work, by double int’rest thine:
Thine by thine own, and what is done of mine
Inspir’d by thee, thy secret pow’r imprest:
My muse with thine itself dar’d to combine,
As mortal stuff with that which is divine:
Let thy fair beams give lustre to the rest.
Specimens of stanzas on the schemes a b b a c c c4, a b b a b b a4, a b b a a c c3, a b b a a c c5, a b b a c c a5, and a b c c d d d4, are given in Metrik, ii, §456.
Anisometrical stanzas on the model a b b a in the first part occur only in single examples, one corresponding to the scheme a b b a4 b2 c c4 found in Milton, Arcades, Song I; and another of the form a3 b b5 a3 c c a5 in Mrs. Hemans, The Festal Hour (ii. 247); cf. Metrik, ii, § 466.
Sometimes quite anisometrical stanzas with parallel rhymes occur, especially in the earlier poets, as e.g. in Wyatt, Suckling, Cowley; a stanza of Cowley’s poem, The Thief (Poets, v. 263), has the formula a5 a b b c c4 c5: