Very often we find stanzas of combined crossed and parallel rhymes; one e.g. on the model _a b a₅ b₆ c c₅_ in Shelley, _A Summer-Evening Churchyard_ (i. 160): _The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere Each vapour that obscured the sunset's ray; And pallid Evening twines its beaming hair In duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: Silence and Twilight, unbeloved of men, Creep hand in hand from yon obscurest glen._ Many stanzas of a similar kind correspond to the schemes _a a₄ b c₂ b₄ c₃_, _a₄ b₃ a b c c₄_, _a₃ b₅ a b₄ c₅ c₄_, _a b a₅ b c c₄_, _a₅ a b c c b₄ c₅_, _a₄ b ~₂ a a₄ b ~a₄_, _a₅ b₃ a b c₅ c₃_, and _a b c c a₄ b₃_; for specimens see _Metrik_, ii, §§ 460-3. Stanzas consisting of shorter lines are not so often met with; we have an example (on the model _a b a₂ b c₄ c₃_) consisting of iambic-anapaestic verses in R. Browning, _On the Cliff_ (vi. 48): _I leaned on the turf, I looked at a rock Left dry by the surf; For the turf, to call it grass were to mock; Dead to the roots, so deep was done The work of the summer sun._ For stanzas on the schemes _a₄ b₁ a₄ b₂ C D₂_, _a b a₄ c₃ c b₂_ see ibid. § 464. § =289.= Among =seven-line= stanzas, both in earlier (Ph. Fletcher, S. Daniel, &c.) and more recent poets (Mrs. Browning, Swinburne, R. Browning, D.G. Rossetti), those which are entirely isometrical occur often. One on the model _a b b a b b a₅_ is met with in S. Daniel's _Epistle to the Angel Spirit of the most excellent Sir Philip Sidney_ (Poets, iii. 228): _To thee, pure spir't, to thee alone addrest Is this joint work, by double int'rest thine: Thine by thine own, and what is done of mine Inspir'd by thee, thy secret pow'r imprest: My muse with thine itself dar'd to combine, As mortal stuff with that which is divine: Let thy fair beams give lustre to the rest._ Specimens of stanzas on the schemes _a b b a c c c₄_, _a b b a b b a₄_, _a b b a a c c₃_, _a b b a a c c₅_, _a b b a c c a₅_, and _a b c c d d d₄_, are given in _Metrik_, ii, §456. Anisometrical stanzas on the model _a b b a_ in the first part occur only in single examples, one corresponding to the scheme _a b b a₄ b₂ c c₄_ found in Milton, _Arcades_, Song I; and another of the form _a₃ b b₅ a₃ c c a₅_ in Mrs. Hemans, _The Festal Hour_ (ii. 247); cf. _Metrik_, ii, § 466. Sometimes quite anisometrical stanzas with parallel rhymes occur, especially in the earlier poets, as e.g. in Wyatt, Suckling, Cowley; a stanza of Cowley's poem, _The Thief_ (Poets, v. 263), has the formula _a₅ a b b c c₄ c₅_: _What do I seek, alas! or why do I Attempt in vain from thee to fly? For, making thee my deity, I give thee then ubiquity, My pains resemble hell in this, The Divine Presence there, too, is, But to torment men, not to give them bliss._