Of elder time, thou land of glorious flowers
And summer winds and low-toned silvery streams,
Dim with the shadows of thy laurel bowers,
Where, as they pass’d, bright hours
Left no faint sense of parting, such as clings
To earthly love, and joy in loveliest things!
Other similar stanzas correspond to a4 b a5 b4 c3 c4 c5, a3 b a4 b2 c c c5, a5 b a4 b5 c4 c c5, a5 b c c b a4 a5, a b a4 b3 b5 a4 b3, and a b a3 b4 c3 c2 c4; for examples taken from older poets (Donne, Carew, Cowley) and from later literature (Longfellow, D. G. Rossetti) cf. Metrik, ii, § 468.
Several other stanza-forms remind us by their structure and arrangement of rhymes of certain shortened forms of the tail-rhyme stanza, e.g. one in A Parting Song by Mrs. Hemans (vi. 189), on the scheme A4 B3 c c d d4 B2:
When will ye think of me, my friends?
When will ye think of me?