(Pope: Ode on Solitude. ab. 1700.)
Two-stress trochaic.
Could I catch that
Nimble traitor,
Scornful Laura,
Swift-foot Laura,
Soon then would I
Seek avengement.
(Campion: Anacreontics, in Observations in the Art of English Poesie. 1602.)
(In combination with four-stress:)
Dust that covers
Long dead lovers
Song blows off with breath that brightens;
At its flashes
Their white ashes
Burst in bloom that lives and lightens.
(Swinburne: Song in Season.)
(Catalectic, and in combination with three-stress:)
Summer's crest
Red-gold tressed,
Corn-flowers peeping under;—
Idle noons,
Lingering moons,
Sudden cloud,
Lightning's shroud,
Sudden rain,
Quick again
Smiles where late was thunder.
(George Eliot: Song from The Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i. 1868.)