A History of English Versification

by J. Schipper

A Modern English example is—

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,