There are other stanzas of this kind which occur in earlier poets, as e. g. Donne, Cowley, and Dryden, or in some of those of later date, as Southey, R. Browning, and Rossetti, one half-stanza having enclosing rhymes and the whole stanza partaking of a tripartite structure. We find, e.g. the form A b b a c d c4 d3 in D. G. Rossetti, A Little While (i. 245):
A little while a little love
The hour yet bears for thee and me
Who have not drawn the veil to see,
If still our heaven be lit above.
Thou merely, at the day’s last sigh,
Hast felt thy soul prolong the tone;
And I have heard the night-wind cry
And deemed its speech mine own.
Other similar stanzas correspond to the formulas a a b5 b4 c5 d d4 c5, a5 b b4 a5 c c4 d d5, a4 b b2 a c4 d d2 c3, and a5 b3 a b5 c3 d d5 c3; for examples see Metrik, ii, § 474. Stanzas on the model a ~ b c a ~ c4 B2 d4 D2, or on a b c ~2 d d a b c ~4, are found only in single examples (cf. Metrik, ii, § 476)