_Amóngst the mýrtles ás I wálk'd, Lóve and my síghs thus íntertálk'd: 'Téll me,' said Í in déep distréss, 'Where I may fínd my shépherdéss.'_ Carew, Poets, iii, p. 703.
Another stanza of four lines is formed when the first rhythmical sections of two tetrameters rhyming together are also connected in the corresponding place (viz. before the caesura) by another species of rhyme, called _interlaced_ or _crossed_ rhyme (_rime entrelacée_):
_I spéke of Ihésu of hévene withín; Off álle kýngys he is flóur; Þat súffryd déþ for álle mankýn, He ís our alle créatóur._ Saynt Katerine, ii, ll. 89-92.
Cf. these verses with an earlier version of the same legend (quoted p. 127), where only the second sections are connected by rhyme.
_When yóuth had léd me hálf the ráce That Cúpid's scóurge had máde me rún; I lóoked báck to méte the pláce From whénce my wéary cóurse begún._ Surrey, Restless Lover, p. 4, ll. 1-4.
Corresponding short trochaic lines result from the acatalectic trochaic tetrameter broken by leonine or inserted rhyme. In Middle English poetry, however, they occur but very seldom in their pure form, i.e. with disyllabic rhymes; in most cases they have monosyllabic or alternate monosyllabic and disyllabic rhymes.
In like manner the catalectic iambic tetrameter is broken up by inserted rhyme into two short verses, viz. one of four feet with a monosyllabic ending, and one of three feet with a disyllabic ending, as in the following examples:
_Bytwéne mérsh and áverýl, When spráy bigínneþ to sprínge, Þe lútel fóul haþ híre wýl On hýre lúd to sínge._
_A chíeftain tó the híghlands bóund Cries: 'Bóatman, dó not tárry, And Í'll give thée a sílver póund To rów us ó'er the férry.'_ Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter, ll. 1-4.
A tetrameter brachycatalectic in both sections may also be broken up either by leonine or by inserted rhyme. The following examples illustrate respectively these two methods:
_Wiþ lónging ý am lád, On mólde y wáxe mád, Y gréde, y gróne, vnglád For sélden ý am sád._ Wright's Spec. of Lyric Poetry, p. 29.
_Lo, Ióseph, ít is Í, An ángelle sénd to thé; We, léyf, I práy the, whý? What ís thy wýlle with mé?_ Towneley Mysteries, p. 135.
In the same manner the verse of four feet mentioned above is broken up into two lines of two feet, and the two-feet line into two lines of one foot, as in the following examples: