The man of firm and noble soul
No factious clamours can control;
No threat’ning tyrant’s darkling brow
Can swerve him from his just intent;
Gales the warring waves which plough,
By Auster on the billows spent,
To curb the Adriatic main,
Would awe his fix’d, determined mind in vain.
Other stanzas correspond to the schemes a a5 . b b c c3 . d ~ d ~4, a5 a3 a4 . b b4 . c c4 c5, a b5 b3 . a4 a . c c c5, a3 a . b c b c . d d5, a a4 . b4 c ~ c ~2 . d d2 b4, and a5 a2 . b b5 . c c c5 c2. All these forms are met with in earlier poets, as e.g. Donne, Drayton, and Cowley; for specimen see Metrik, ii, § 471
§ 291. A quadripartite structure is sometimes observable in stanzas with four rhymes, especially with a parallel or crossed order, or both combined, as e.g. in a poem by Donne, The Damp (Poets, iv. 37), the scheme being a5 a4 b b5 c c4 d d5: