What do I seek, alas! or why do I
Attempt in vain from thee to fly?
For, making thee my deity,
I give thee then ubiquity,
My pains resemble hell in this,
The Divine Presence there, too, is,
But to torment men, not to give them bliss.
Other forms of a similar structure are a a3 b b2 a a3 B4, a4 a b b3 c c4 x3, a4 a b5 b c c4 c5, a5 a a b b4 c c3; for examples see Metrik, ii, §467.
Stanzas which have crossed rhymes either in part or throughout are still commoner. Thus a stanza on the model of therhyme royal stanza (a3 b a b5 b3 c c5) which occurs in Mrs. Hemans, Elysium (iii. 236):
Fair wert thou in the dreams