C: (×)×̀×⏑́×–́×, &c.
B: (×)×̀×–́(×)×̀×⏑́×.
Other variations may be effected by disyllabic or even polysyllabic theses in the beginning (‘anacruses’) or in the middle of the verse instead of monosyllabic theses.
Apart from these another frequently occurring variation of type C must be mentioned which corresponds to the formula (×)×̀×–́×–́×, and may be designated (with Professors Paul and Luick) as type Ca, because the position of its accented syllables points to type C, while on the other hand it bears a certain resemblance to type A.
The following examples, many of which have been quoted before by Luick, may serve to illustrate these types of short lines or rather hemistichs and their combination in couplets or long lines, in which a normal hemistich is often followed by a lengthened one and vice versa:
| A* + A*: | Stróng hit ìs to rówe | ayèyn þe sée þat flóweþ. Prov. x. 145–6. |
| A* + A*: | And swá heo gùnnen wénden | fórð tò þan kínge. Lay. 13811–12. |
| A* + A*: | ne míhte wè bilǽue | for líue nè for dǽþe. Lay. ib. 13875–6. |
| B + A*: | ùmbe fíftène ȝer | þat fólc is isómned. ib. 13855–6. |
| A* + C*: | ǽveràlche ȝére | heo bèreð chíld þére. ib. 13871–2. |
| B* + B*: | þèr com Héngest, þèr com Hórs, | þèr com míni mòn ful óht. ib. 14009–10. |
| B* + B*: | ànd þe clérek ànd þe knýht, | he schùlle démen èuelyche ríht. Prov. iv. 78–9. |
| Ca+ C*: | þèr þes cníhtes cómen | bifòren þan fólc-kínge. Lay. 13817–18. |
| C* + A*: | ȝìf heo gríð sóhten, | and of his fréondscipe róhten? ib. 13803–4. |
| C* + Ca: | hìt beoð tíðénde | ìnne Sǽxe lónde. ib. 14325–6. |
| A* + C*: | for he wólde wìð þan kínge | hòlden rúnínge. ib. 14069–70. |
| A* + D*: | heo sǽden tò þan kínge | néowe tíðènden. ib. 13996–7. |
| A* + D*: | and míd him bròuhte hére | an húndred rídǣ̀ren. ib. 15088–9. |
| E* + B*: | Hǽngest wès þan kìnge léof | ànd him Líndesàȝe géf. ib. 14049–50. |
Types with resolutions:
| A* + A*: | and þús þìne dúȝeþe | stílle hè fordémeð. ib. 14123–4. |
| A* + B*: | Wóden hèhde þa hǽhste làȝe | an ùre ǽldèrne dǽȝen. ib. 13921–2. |
The first hemistich of the last line offers a specimen of a variation of the ordinary types with feminine endings (chiefly of A, C, and Ca), designated by Prof. Luick as A1, C1, Ca1, and showing the peculiarity that instead of the ending –́× somewhat fuller forms occur, consisting either of two separate words or of a compound word, and thus corresponding either to the formula –́×̀, or, if there are three syllables, to the formula –́××̀, or in case of a resolution (as in the above example) to the formula –́×⏑́×. We differ from Prof. Luick, however, in admitting also endings corresponding to the formula ⏑́×̀×.