The same applies to another simple hypothesis, the postulating of a line having dropped out of the text in the course of printing. There is no other evidence of such laxity. But indeed, the evidence of rhyme-scheme militates against the whole guess. They are both complete and whole. No signs can be detected of attempted but incomplete paralleling of 15 with 16.
Textual lacuna seems to be a further desperate remedy.
Accordingly, in a poem which relies much on number-symbolism, one where numbers alert us to theme and mime it, we should look to see whether numerology solves our difficulty. Mainly, it does not. The number of trimeters will not affect the count of the longer lines, which yield the needed 365. But in one way, number-symbolism does offer a solution, by giving us a sort of onomatopoeia, an imitating of the meaning by something in the form, the local effect of one expected short line being absent. After all, the stanza itself contemplates length and shortness.