_Would'st know what tricks, by the pale moonlight, Are play'd by me, the merry little Sprite, Who wing through air from the camp to the court, From king to clown, and of all make sport; Singing, I am the Sprite Of the merry midnight, Who laugh at weak mortals, and love the moonlight._ Stanzas with an anisometrical first part, e.g. on the model _a₄ a₅ b₄ b₅ c c₄ c₅_in Donne, _Love's Exchange_ (Poets, iv. 30), are of rare occurrence. Numerous stanzas of this kind have in part crossed rhymes; we find, e. g., stanzas with the same order of rhymes as in the _rhyme royal, _on the model _a b a b b c₃ c₅_ as in S. Daniel, _A Description of Beauty_: _O Beauty (beams, nay, flame Of that great lamp of light), That shines a while with fame, But presently makes night! Like winter's shortliv'd bright, Or summer's sudden gleams; How much more dear, so much less lasting beams._ Similar stanzas have the schemes _a b a b b₃ c c₅_, _a b a b c b₄ c₂_, _a b a b c c₄ R₂_, _a b a b c c₄ C₅_, _a b a b c c₄ b₃_, _a b a b₄ c c₂ a₄_, &c. For examples see _Metrik_, ii, §§ 401-3. In many stanzas the first and the last part (_frons_ and _cauda_) are anisometrical. Thus Donne, Cowley, and Congreve furnish many examples of the formulas _a₅ b₄ a₅ b₄ c c₄ b₅_, _a ~₄ b₆ a ~₄ b₅ c c₃ c₄_, _a₄ b₅ a₄ b₅ c c₂ b₄_, and later poets make frequent use of similar stanzas composed of shorter lines after the model of the following by Congreve, _Poets_, vii. 546 (_a₄ b ~₃ a₄ b ~3 c c₄ b ~₃_): _Tell me no more I am deceived, That Cloe's false and common; I always knew (at least believ'd) She was a very woman; As such I lik'd, as such caress'd, She still was constant when possess'd, She could do more for no man._ For examples of other similar stanzas (_a₄ b₃ a₄ b₃ c c b₃_, _a₄ b₃ a₄ b₃ C C₃ C₅_, _a₃ b₄ a₃ b₄ c c c₄_, _a₄ b ~₂ a₄ b ~₂ c c a₄_, &c.) see _Metrik_, ii, §§ 404-6. § =276. Eight-lined stanzas= of various kinds are also very popular. They rarely occur, however, with an isometrical _frons_, composed of rhyming couplets (_a a b b c c d₅ d₃_, _a ~ a ~ b ~ b ~₄ C ~ C ~₂ d ~ d ~₄_, _a a b b c c d₄ d₅_; cf. _Metrik_, ii, §§ 408, 410); or with enclosing rhymes in the _cauda_ (_a a b b c d d₄ c₅_, _a a b b₄ c d₄ d₂ c₄_, ib. § 409); or of an anisometrical structure with parallel rhymes in both parts (ib. § 411). The usual forms show crossed rhymes; either throughout the whole stanza (in which case the first part is isometrical), or in the first part only. The first form is represented by the following elegant stanza (_a b a b₅ c₄ d ~₃ c₄ d ~₃_) in the second of Drayton's _Eclogues_ (Poets, iii. 590):