To rów us ó’er the férry.’
Campbell, Lord Ullin’s Daughter, ll. 1–4.
A tetrameter brachycatalectic in both sections may also be broken up either by leonine or by inserted rhyme. The following examples illustrate respectively these two methods:
Wiþ lónging ý am lád,
On mólde y wáxe mád,
Y gréde, y gróne, vnglád
For sélden ý am sád.
Wright’s Spec. of Lyric Poetry, p. 29.
Lo, Ióseph, ít is Í,
An ángelle sénd to thé;