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.
Wright’s Spec. of Lyric Poetry, p. 27.
A chíeftain tó the híghlands bóund
Cries: ‘Bóatman, dó not tárry,
And Í’ll give thée a sílver póund