As a rule, if not always, such forms of verse are occasioned by the requirements of rhyme. This is not the case, it is true, in the following purely alliterative line:
A1* + A*: þe kíng sòne úp stòd | and sétte hine bì him séoluen.
Lay. 14073–4.
but in other verses it is so, e.g.:
B* + A1*: Ah of éou ich wùlle iwíten | þurh sóðen èouwer wúrðscìpen.
ib. 13835–6.
and similarly (not corresponding to –́××̀, as Prof. Luick thinks):
A1* + B*: bìdden us to fúltúme | þàt is Críst gòdes súne.
ib. 14618–19.
but the formula –́××̀is represented by the following verses: