Another stanza, which is used in Carew's _Love's Courtship_ (Poets, iii. 707), is formed on the scheme _a a₄ b₂ c c₄_, where the tail-verse of the second half-stanza is wanting. As to the other varieties, arising from the use of other metres, cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 338. Sometimes stanzas of three rhymes occur, rhyming crosswise throughout, and of various forms, e.g. _a b a c₄ b₃_ in Longfellow, _The Saga of King Olaf_ (p. 565); _a b₄ c₃ a₄ c₂_ in Coleridge; _a b a b₅ C₃_ in Mrs. Hemans (iv. 119); _a b a b₄ C₃_ in Moore, _Weep, Children of Israel_: _Weep, weep for him, the Man of God-- In yonder vale he sunk to rest; But none of earth can point the sod That flowers above his sacred breast. Weep, children of Israel, weep!_ For other varieties see _Metrik_, ii, § 339. § =261.= Unequal-membered anisometrical =stanzas of six lines= are only rarely met with in Middle English, as e.g. _a a₄ b b b a₂_ in Dunbar's poem, _Aganis Treason_. They occur, on the other hand, very frequently in Modern English, especially with parallel rhymes on the scheme _a a a a₄ B C₂_ in _The Old and Young Courtier_ (Percy's _Rel._ II. iii. 8): _An old song made by an aged-old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a greate estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's old courtier._ For specimens of other stanzas, the rhymes of which are arranged in a similar way (according to _a₅ a a b b₄ b₅_, or with partly enclosing rhymes, as _a₅ b b b b₃ a₅_, _a a b b b₄ a₂_, _a a₄ b b b a₂_, &c.), see _Metrik_, ii, § 340. Forms based upon the tail-rhyme stanza are very popular; of great importance is the entwined form on a Provençal model (cf. Bartsch, _Provenzalisches Lesebuch_, p. 46) which was imitated in Middle English poetry. It corresponds to the scheme _a a a₄ b₃ a₄ b₃_ and gives the impression, according to Wolf in his book, _Über die Lais_, &c., p. 230, note 67, that the second part of a common tail-rhyme stanza is inserted into the first, though it is also possible that it may have been formed from the extended tail-rhyme stanza _a a a₄ b₃ a a a₄ b₃_ by shortening the second part by two chief verses. The first stanza of a poem in Wright's _Spec. of Lyr. Poetry_, p. 94, may serve as a specimen: _Ase y me rod þis ender day, By grene wode to seche play, Mid herte y þohte al on a may, Suetest of alle þinge; Lyþe, and ich ou telle may Al of þat suete þinge._ This stanza occurs frequently in the _Towneley Mysteries_, pp. 120-34, 254-69, &c. In Modern English, however, we find it very seldom; as an example (iambic-anapaestic verses of four and three measures) we may refer to Campbell's _Stanzas on the battle of Navarino_ (p. 176).