§ =232.= The double stanza, i.e. that of eight lines of the same structure (_a a b b c c d d_), occurs in different kinds of verse. With lines of four measures it is found, e.g. in Suckling's poem, _The Expostulation_ (Poets, iii. 749): _Tell me, ye juster deities, That pity lover's miseries, Why should my own unworthiness Light me to seek my happiness? It is as natural, as just, Him for to love whom needs I must: All men confess that love's a fire, Then who denies it to aspire?_ This stanza comes to a better conclusion when it winds up with a refrain, as in Percy's _Reliques_, II. ii. 13. One very popular form of it consists of four-foot trochaic lines, e.g. in Burns, p. 197, M. Arnold, _A Memory Picture_, p. 23 (the two last lines of each stanza forming a refrain), or of four-foot iambic-anapaestic lines (Burns, _My heart's in the Highlands_). Somewhat rarely it is made up of five-foot iambic or septenaric lines (cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 262).[188] § =233.= We have next to consider the stanzas of four isometrical lines with intermittent rhyme (_a b c b_). As a rule they consist of three- or four-foot verses, which are really Alexandrines or acatalectic tetrameters rhyming in long couplets, and only in their written or printed arrangement broken up into short lines; as, e.g., in the following half-stanza from the older version of the _Legend of St. Katherine_, really written in eight-lined stanzas (ed. Horstmann, _Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge_, Heilbronn, 1881, p. 242): _He that made heven and erthe and sonne and mone for to schine, Bring ous into his riche and scheld ous fram helle pine!_ Examples of such stanzas of four-foot trochaic and three-foot iambic verses that occur chiefly in Percy's _Reliques_ (cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 264), but also in M. Arnold, _Calais Sands_ (p. 219), _The Church of Brou, I., The Castle_ (p. 13, feminine and masculine verse-endings alternating), _New Rome_, p. 229, _Parting_, p. 191 (iambic-anapaestic three-beat and two-beat verses), _Iseult of Ireland_, p. 150 (iambic verses of five measures); cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 264. § =234.= Stanzas of eight lines result from this stanza by doubling, i. e. by adding a second couplet of the same structure and rhyme to the original long-line couplet. Such a form with the scheme _a b c b d b e b_ meet in the complete stanza of the older _Legend of St. Katherine_ just referred to: _He that made heven and erthe and sonne and mone for to schine, Bring ous into his riche and scheld ous fram helle pine! Herken, and y you wile telle the liif of an holy virgine, That treuli trowed in Jhesu Crist: hir name was hoten Katerine_, This sort of doubling, however, occurs in Modern English poetry more rarely than that which is produced by adding a second long-lined couplet, but with a new rhyme, so that when the stanza is arranged in short lines we have the scheme _a b c b d e f e_.