The same stanza, both of four- and five-foot lines, is frequently employed by Dunbar; e.g. _On his Heid-Ake, The Visitation of St. Francis_, &c. We find it also in modern poets, composed of the same, or of other verses; Moore, e.g., has used it with five-foot iambic-anapaestic lines, in _At the mid hour of Night_. A stanza on the model _a b a b b_ is a favourite in Modern English; it is formed from the four-lined stanza (_abab_) by repeating the last rhyme. It consists of the most different kinds of verse; an example is Carew's _To my inconstant Mistress_ (Poets, iii. 678): _When thou, poor excommunicate From all the joys of love, shall see The full reward, and glorious fate, Which my strong faith shall purchase me, Then curse thine own inconstancy._ For other specimens in lines of five, three, and four feet see _Metrik_, ii. 307. Much less common is the form _a b b a b_, which occurs e.g. in Coleridge's _Recollections of Love_ (_a b b a b₄_). Five-lined stanzas of crossed rhymes are not very rare; an example of the form _a b a b a₄_ is found in R. Browning's _The Patriot_ (iv. 149): _It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day._ For specimens of other forms see _Metrik_, ii, § 318. § =256.= The simplest kind of isometrical stanzas of this group is that in which the four-lined one-rhymed stanza is extended by the addition of a couplet with a new rhyme, so that it forms a =six-lined stanza=. A Latin stanza of this kind consisting of Septenary verses is given in Wright's _Pol. Poems_, i. 253, and a Middle English imitation of it, ib. p. 268, in the poem _On the Minorite Friars_. The same stanza composed of four-stressed verses is used by Minot in his poem _Of the batayl of Banocburn_ (ib. i. 61): _Skottes out of Berwik and of Abirdene, At the Bannok burn war ȝe to kene; Thare slogh ȝe many sakles, als it was sene; And now has king Edward wroken it, I wene. It es wrokin, I wene, wele wurth the while; War ȝit with the Skottes, for thai er ful of gile._ Here the _frons_ is connected with the _cauda_, which recurs in each stanza as a kind of refrain, by means of _concatenatio_. Two other poems of Minot's (v, ix) are written in similar stanzas of six and eight lines. In the ten-lined stanza of the poem in Wright's _Spec. of Lyr. Poetry_, p. 25, which is of similar structure, we find the doubling of the _frons_. A six-lined stanza of this kind, which has the formula _a a a b B B_ (_B B_ being refrain-verses), is used by Dunbar in his _Gray-Horse_ poem and in _Luve Erdly and Divine_. The latter begins: