In accordance with the general character of the metre the verses in this Chronicle are, even when rhyming as short lines, printed as long lines, especially as this order of rhymes is not consistently observed in all places in which they occur.
In lyrical poetry this metre is naturally chiefly found arranged in short lines, as in the following examples:
Wright’s Spec. of L. P., 97:
Máyden móder mílde,
oiéz cel óreysóun;
from sháme þóu me shílde,
e dé ly málfelóun.
Minot, ed. Hall, 17:
Tówrenay, ȝów has tíght
To tímber tréy and téne