or with anacrusis:
or stérne was hólden 10, and sóne beráfter 25.
More than two unaccented syllables may occur after the first accented syllable. These two peculiarities seldom occur together in one and the same second hemistich (though frequently in the first hemistich); but there are some examples:
is túrned too him álse 165, and príkeden abóute 382, hee fáred òn in háste 79;
in this last example with a secondary accent on the word òn as also in the verse: þe méssengères þei cámme 1126.
Type C, (×)××–́–́×:
was þe mán hóten 13, þat his kíth ásketh 65, as a kíng shólde 17, withoute míscháunce 1179.
Type BC, (×)××–́×–́×:
or it týme wére 30, in his fáders life 46, of þis méry tále 45, þat þei no cómme þáre 507.
The same types occur in the first hemistich; but type C disappears almost entirely, and in the other two the last syllable not unfrequently is accented, especially if a considerable number of unaccented syllables occur in the middle of the hemistich; such verses may be looked upon as remnants of types B and E: