XV. Later Middle English Period
Variations from Strict Iambic Norm in Gower.
(a) Trochaic substitution:
Ūndĕr | the gren|e thei | begrave.
(Conf. Am. i. 2348.)
(b) Anapæstic substitution:
Sometime | in cham|bre sometime | in halle.
(iv. 1331.)
Of Je|lousi|e, but what | it is
(v. 447.)
(if the dissyllabic "ie" is insisted on).