The case, however, is different where the whole character of the versification is unsymmetrical, as it is in the greater part of Coleridge's Christabel, and Byron's Siege of Corinth.
In the yéar since Jésus diéd for mén,
Eíghteen húndred yeárs and tén,
Wé were a gállant cómpaný,
Ríding o'er lánd and sáiling o'er séa.
Óh! but wé went mérrilý!
We fórded the ríver, and clómb the high híll,
Néver our steéds for a dáy stood stíll.
Whéther we láy in the cáve or the shéd,