When the last red light, the farewell of day,
From the rock and the river is passing away—
When the air with a deep’ning hush is fraught
And the heart grows burden’d with tender thought—
Then let it be.
Similar stanzas corresponding to the formulas a b4 a a3 b a4 a3, a4 b3 a a4 b3 c c4, a a b a5 b a a2 are quoted in Metrik, ii, § 469
§ 290. Most of the eight-lined stanzas, which on the whole are rare, are similar to the tail-rhyme stanza, the scheme of which is carried out in both parts, to which a third part is then added as the cauda (last part).
Stanzas of this kind, used especially by Cowley, correspond to a a5 b3 c c4 b3 d d4, a5 a4 b4 c5 c5 b4 d4 d5, a5 a b c c b4 d d5, and a a5 b4 c c b5 d4 d5 (cf. Metrik, ii, § 470).
The half-stanzas (pedes) are separated by the cauda in a stanza on the scheme a a4 b5 c c d d4 b3, which occurs in Wordsworth, The Pilgrim’s Dream (vi. 153):