In Modern English the three-foot verse has remained a favourite, chiefly in lyrical poetry, and occurs there as well with monosyllabic as with disyllabic rhymes, which may either follow one another or be crossed, e.g.:

Surrey, p. 128:

Me líst no móre to síng

Of lóve, nor óf such thing,

How sóre that ít me wríng;

For whát I súng or spáke,

Mén did my sóngs mistáke.

Surrey, p. 39:

Though Í regárded nót

The prómise máde by mé;