Sáy, but díd you lóve so lóng?
In trúth I néeds must bláme you:
Pássion did your júdgement wróng,
Or wánt of réason sháme you.
When there are masculine rhymes throughout, the stanza is felt distinctly as consisting of alternate lines of four and three feet (a4 b3 a4 b3).
The seven-foot rhythm, however, remains, if the three-foot half-lines only have masculine endings, and the four-foot half-lines remain feminine; as is the case in Swinburne’s poem Clear the Way (Mids. Hol., p. 143):
Cléar the wáy, my lórds and láckeys, | yóu have hád your dáy.
Hére you háve your ánswer, Éngland’s | yéa against your náy;
Lóng enóugh your hóuse has héld you: | up, and cléar the wáy!
This, of course, is likewise the case, if the verses are broken up into stanzas by inserted rhyme (a4 b3 a4 b3).