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.
A Modern English example is—
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.