(Shelley: To a Skylark. 1820.)
Here lines 2 and 4 are catalectic.
Three-stress anapestic.
I am monarch of all I survey;
My right there is none to dispute;
From the centre all round to the sea
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
(Cowper: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. 1782.)
In this specimen lines 2, 5, 6, and 8 show initial truncation, the first light syllable being missing.
(With two-stress verse:)
His desire is a dureless content,
And a trustless joy;
He is won with a world of despair
And is lost with a toy....
But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
(Sir Walter Raleigh (?): Pilgrim to Pilgrim. In MS. Rawl. 85; in Schelling's Elizabethan Lyrics, p. 3.)