In the following stanzas of this poem the four-beat rhythm, although rarely marked by regular alliteration, is (in the main part or 'frons') still more distinctly recognizable, in spite of several rhythmically incorrect lines.
Second hemistichs of the type C1 are not infrequent, e.g. _opon swývýng_ 9, _sire Édwárd_ 46, _o þy lýárd_ 47. Lines 5 and 7 are of a two-beat rhythm, l. 8 probably as well (cf. our scansion).
There is a decided similarity in regard to structure and versification between this stanza and that of a poem in Wright's _Pol. Songs_, p. 153, although the long lines are divided in the middle by interlaced rhyme. This may be illustrated by its second stanza:
_Nou haþ =p=rúde þe =p=rís | in éuervche =p=láwe, By mony =w=ýmmon o=w=ís | y =s=úgge mi =s=áwe. For [gh]ef a =l=ády =l=ýue ìs | =l=éid after =l=áwe, Vch a strúmpet þat þer ís | such =d=ráhtes wol dráwe. In prúde Vch a =s=créwe wol hire =sh=rúde, Þoh he nábbe nout a smók | hire fóule ers to húde._
There is no line here corresponding to l. 5 of the preceding poem. Otherwise, however, the _cauda_ of this poem is of a similar structure to that of the preceding one, at least in this and possibly in the following stanzas, whereas the last line of the first stanza has a two-beat rhythm, and in the others the last lines probably are to be scanned with three beats. The second line of the _cauda_ of the first stanza of this poem belongs to type C. Another poem (Wright's _Polit. Songs_, p. 155; Böddeker, _P.L._ no. iv) shows a very artificial form of stanza, either corresponding to the formula _a a4 b2 c c4 b2 d d4 b2 e e4 b2 f f g g g f2_ (if we look upon the verses as four-beat and two-beat lines, which the poet probably intended), or corresponding to the formula _a a4 b3 c c4 b3 d d4 b3 e e4 b3 f f g g g f2_ (if we look upon the _frons_ as consisting of ordinary tail-rhyme-stanza lines of four and three even-beat measures).
The four- and two-beat cadence of the verses comes out still more clearly in the stanzas of another poem (Wright's _Pol. Songs_, p. 187; Ritson, _Anc. Songs_, i. 51; Böddeker, _P.L._ no. v), the rhymes of which follow the scheme _a a a4 b2 c c c4 b2_ (extended tail-rhyme-stanzas). Some of its long lines, it is true, admit of being read as even-beat verses of three measures, e.g. _and béo huere chéuentéyn_ 20, _and móni anóþer swéyn_ 24, but the true scansion in all probability is _and béo huere chéuente[`y]n_ (or _chèuentéyn_): _ant móni anòþer swéyn_, in conformity with the scansion of the following lines _to cóme to parís: þourh þe flóur de lís_ 52-6, or _wiþ éorl and wiþ knýht: with húem forte fýht_ 124-8.