6. The unaccented rhyme, an imperfect kind of rhyme, because only the unaccented syllables of disyllabic or polysyllabic words, mostly of Germanic origin and accentuation, rhyme together, and not their accented syllables as the ordinary rule would demand, e.g. láweles, lóreless, námeless; wrécful, wróngful, sínful Song of the Magna Charta, ll. 30–2, 66–8; many rhymes of this kind occur in the alliterative-rhyming long line combined into stanzas.[182] In Modern English we find this kind of rhyme pretty often in Wyatt[183]; e.g.:
Consider well thy ground and thy beginning;
And gives the moon her horns, and her eclipsing.
p. 56.
With horrible fear, as one that greatly dreadeth
A wrongful death, and justice alway seeketh.
p. 149.
Such rhymes in dactylic feet, as in the following verses by Moore (Beauty and Song ll. 1–4),
Dówn in yon súmmer vale,
Whére the rill flóws,