§ =242.= As to the =further development of the tail-rhyme stanza,= the enlarged forms must first be mentioned. They are produced by adding a third line to the principal lines of each half-stanza; the result being an eight-lined stanza of the formula _a a a₄ b₃ c c c₄ b₃_. Stanzas of this form occur in Early Middle English lyrics, e.g. in Wright's _Spec. of Lyr. Poetry_, p. 51 (with a refrain-stanza) and _Polit. Songs_, p. 187 (four-stressed main verses and two-stressed tail-verses, the latter having occasionally the appearance of being in three-beat rhythm). A later example is found in Dunbar's poem _Off the Fenȝeit Freir of Tungland_; in the Miracle Plays the form was also in favour. Isometrical stanzas of this kind have been mentioned above (§§ 238, 239). In Modern English poetry this stanza is extensively used. We find it in Drayton, _Nymphidia_ (Poets, iii. 177), with feminine tail-verses: _Old Chaucer doth of Topas tell, Mad Rablais of Pantagruel, A later third of Dowsabel, With such poor trifles playing: Others the like have laboured at, Some of this thing and some of that, And many of they know not what, But that they must be saying_. Other examples of this stanza, as of similar ones, consisting of four- and three-foot trochaic and iambic-anapaestic verses, are given in _Metrik_, ii, § 280. There are some subdivisions of this stanza consisting of verses of three and two measures, of four and two measures, four and one measure, five and two, and five and one measure, according to the formulae _a a a₃ b₂ c c c₃ b₂_, _a a a₄ b₂ c c c₄ b₂_, _a a a₄ b₁ c c c₄ b₁_, _a a a₅ b₂ c c c₅ b₂_, _a a a₅ b₁ c c c₅ b₁_. For specimens see _Metrik_, ii, § 281. The ten-lined tail-rhyme stanza occurs very rarely; we have an example in Longfellow's _The Goblet of Life_ (p. 114), its formula being _a a a a₄ b₃ c c c c₄ b₃_. § =243.= We find, however, pretty often--though only in Modern English--certain variant forms of the enlarged eight- and ten-lined tail-rhyme stanzas, the chief verses of which are of unequal length in each half-stanza; as in Congreve's poem, _On Miss Temple_ (Poets, vii. 568). In this poem the first verse of each half-stanza is shortened by one foot, in accordance with the formula _a₃ a a₄ b₃ c₃ c c₄ b₃_: _Leave, leave the drawing-room, Where flowers of beauty us'd to bloom; The nymph that's fated to o'ercome, Now triumphs at the wells. Her shape, and air, and eyes, Her face, the gay, the grave, the wise, The beau, in spite of box and dice, Acknowledge, all excels._