In consulting the remaining three stanzas of this chorus, one will find Sullivan inventive in the large in a way just analogous to his in-verse flexibility. All four stanzas are word-metrically the same; but for stanza 2 he invents a counterpointing rhythm different from that of the first stanza; stanza 3 he sets only according to the poetic timing (uniquely for this song); and then stanza 4 seems to replicate the first stanza but is then stretched far out of shape even in terms of all the foregoing: a not atypical cadential device for him. Thus the strict and unchanging verse-rhythm beneath is expressed (or concealed) by a progressing counterpointing rhythm in the music; and the suggestion of a full return in the setting of the final stanza adds yet another level of shape over the poem.