§ 293. Stanzas of nine lines either show a combination of parallel with crossed or enclosing rhymes, as in the forms a a b c b c d d d4, a5 b a4 b5 b5 c4 c5 d d5 (Rhyme-Royal + rhyming couplet), a b5 b a4 c3 c c d d5, a4 a b b5 c4 c5 d4 d d5, a4 b a3 c4 b3 d b c4 D1 &c. (for specimens see Metrik, ii, §§ 477 and 479), or, in some of the later poets, they consist of parts of modified tail-rhyme stanzas combined with other forms, as in the following stanza (a ~3 b4 a ~ b3 c c2 d3 a ~ d3) of a song by Moore:
Love thee, dearest? love thee?
Yes, by yonder star I swear,
Which thro’ tears above thee
Shines so sadly fair;
Though often dim,
With tears, like him,
Like him my truth will shine,
And—love thee, dearest? love thee?
Yes, till death I’m thine.