Yet they must live but some few Hours:
Time what we forbear devours."—Waller.
Which is only a stanza of four verses in alternate rhyme, to which a fifth verse is added that rhymes to the second and fourth.
See also an instance of a stanza of five verses, where the rhymes are intermixed in the manner as the former, but the first and third verses are composed but of four syllables each.
"Go, lovely Rose,
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be."—Waller.
In the following example the two first verses rhyme, and the three last.