256-71. This stanza is in the same metre as that marked 5 below, ll.
317-332. It is very complex, consisting of 16 lines of varying length. The
lines which I have set back have but _four_ accents; the rest have _five_.
The rimes in the first eight lines are arranged in the order _a a a b a a a
b_; in the last eight lines this order is precisely reversed, giving _b b b
a b b b a_; so that the whole forms a _virelay_.