A Pilgrim, when the summer day
Had closed upon his weary way,
A lodging begged beneath a castle’s roof;
But him the haughty Warder spurned;
And from the gate the Pilgrim turned,
To seek such covert as the field
Or heath-besprinkled copse might yield,
Or lofty wood, shower-proof.
In other stanzas on the models a4 b2 a b c c c4 b2, a ~ b a ~4 b3 c ~ c ~ c ~4 b2, a4 b2 a4 c c2 d d4 b2, and a4 B ~2 a a4 C ~2 D3 D4, only a half-stanza of the tail-rhyme form can be recognized (cf. Metrik, ii, §475).
Sometimes an unequal part is inserted between two parts of a somewhat similar structure, as in a stanza with the formula a a b c b c d4 d5 in Byron, Translation from Horace (p. 89):