And match me this catch, | though you swagger and screech,
Ah, drink till you wink, | my merry men, each.
Walter Scott, Song from Kenilworth.
2. Very closely related to this is the inverse rhyme (as Guest called it), which occurs when the last accented syllable of the first hemistich of a verse rhymes with the first accented syllable of the second hemistich:
These steps both reach | and teach thee shall
To come by thrift | to shift withall.
Tusser.
This kind of rhyme is generally met with in the popular national long line of four stresses. Guest gives a much wider range to it. But when it occurs in other kinds of verse, as in the iambic verse of four or five feet, it is not to be looked upon as an intentional rhyme, but only as a consonance caused by rhetorical repetition (the examples are quoted by Guest):
And art thou gone and gone for ever? Burns.
I followed fast, but faster did he fly. Shak. Mids. III. ii. 416.