"When Meg Merrilies did pass,
Each curséd race had held a feast,
And wide their dark memorials spread
Beneath a pale December east."
In this stanza, the first line ("When Meg Merrilies did pass") rhymes with the third line ("Each curséd race had held a feast"), and the second line ("And wide their dark memorials spread") rhymes with the fourth line ("Beneath a pale December east").