§ =227.= The following specimens illustrate first of all the two chief kinds of arrangement; i.e. the _pedes_ preceding the _cauda_, and the _frons_ preceding the _versus_: {_With longyng y am lad_, I. pes: {_On molde y waxe mad_, { _A maide marreþ me_; {_Y grede, y grone, vnglad_, II. pes: {_For selden y am sad_ { _Þat semly for te se_. { _Leuedy, þou rewe me!_ cauda: {_To rouþe þou hauest me rad_, {_Be bote of þat y bad_, { _My lyf is long on þe_. Wright's Spec. of Lyr. Poetry, p. 29. {_Jesu, for þi muchele miht_, frons: { _Þou ȝef vs of þi grace, {Þat we mowe dai and nyht {Þenken o þi face._ {_In myn herte hit doþ me god_, I. versus: {_When y þenke on iesu blod_, { _Þat ran doun bi ys syde_, {_From is herte doun to is fot_; II. versus: {_For ous he spradde is herte blod_, { _His woundes were so wyde_. ib. p. 83. Theoretically, the second stanza might also be regarded as a stanza consisting of two _pedes_ and two _versus_, or, in other words, as a four-part stanza of two equal parts in each half. Stanzas of this kind occur pretty often in Middle and Modern English poetry. They mostly, however, convey the effect of a tripartite stanza on account of the greater extent of the one pair of equal parts of the stanza. The tripartition effected only by a difference in the arrangement of rhymes either in the _pedes_ and the _cauda_, or in the _frons_ and the _versus_, will be illustrated by the following specimens: I. pes: {_Take, oh take those lips away_, { _That so sweetly were forsworne_; II. pes: {_And those eyes, the breake of day_, { _Lights that doe mislead the morne_. cauda: {_But my kisses bring againe_, {_Seales of love, but seal'd in vaine_. Shak., Meas. IV. i. 4. frons: {_As by the shore, at break of day_, {_A vanquish'd Chief expiring lay_, I. versus: { _Upon the sands, with broken sword_, {_He traced his farewell to the Free_; II. versus: { _And, there, the last unfinish'd word_ {_He dying wrote was 'Liberty'_. Moore, Song. A very rare variety of tripartition that, as far as we know, does not occur till Modern English times, is that by which the _cauda_ is placed between the two _pedes_. This arrangement, of course, may occur in each of the three kinds of tripartition. A specimen of the last kind (viz. that in which the _cauda_ is distinguished from the _pedes_ by a different arrangement of rhymes) may suffice to explain it: