In myn herte hit doþ me god,
When y þenke on iesu blod,
Þat ran doun bi ys syde,
II. versus:
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From is herte doun to is fot;
For ous he spradde is herte blod,
His woundes were so wyde.
ib. p. 83.
Theoretically, the second stanza might also be regarded as a stanza consisting of two pedes and two versus, or, in other words, as a four-part stanza of two equal parts in each half. Stanzas of this kind occur pretty often in Middle and Modern English poetry. They mostly, however, convey the effect of a tripartite stanza on account of the greater extent of the one pair of equal parts of the stanza.
The tripartition effected only by a difference in the arrangement of rhymes either in the pedes and the cauda, or in the frons and the versus, will be illustrated by the following specimens:
I. pes:
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