Warner, Albion’s England.[125]
Brachycatalectic trochaic tetrameter:
Hásten, Lórd, to réscue mé | and sét me sáue from tróuble;
Sháme thou thóse who séek my sóul, | rewárd their míschief dóuble.
Translation of Psalm lxix.
If both rhythmical sections of a tetrameter are brachycatalectic we get one of the four varieties of the Middle English Alexandrine—the only one that has continued in use in Modern English poetry.
Alexandrine:
Mid ývernésse and prúde | and ýssing wés that ón;
He núste nouht þát he wés | bóþe gód and món.
The Passion of our Lord, ll. 35, 36.