The second hemistichs in ll. 2 and 4 belong to type C. In other poems also, with lines of more regular rhythm (chiefly type A), this type may be met with now and then, e.g. in a poem published in Wright's _Specimens of Lyric Poetry_, p. 25, especially in the second hemistich, e.g. _haueþ þis =m=ái =m=ére_, line 9, _and þe =g=ýlófre_, line 40, _þat þe =b=ór =b=éde_, line 44.
It is not difficult to distinguish such rhymed four-beat alliterative lines from those of four measures which have fairly regular alliteration, for the long line of the native metre always has a somewhat looser fabric, not the even-beat rhythmic cadence peculiar to the iambic verse of four measures, and, secondly, it always has a caesura after the first hemistich, whereas the even-beat verse of four measures may either lack distinct caesura or the caesura may occur in other places in the verse as well as after the second arsis. This will be evident by comparing the following four-beat verses of the last stanza of a poem in Wright's _Spec. of Lyr. Poetry_, p. 31:
_=R=íchard | =r=óte of =r=ésoun =r=ýght, =r=ýkeníng of =r=ým ant =r=ón, Of =m=áidnes =m=éke þóu hast =m=ýht, on =m=ólde y hólde þe =m=úrgest =m=ón;_
with the following first four-beat alliterative lines of another poem (ibid. p. 25):
_Ichot a =b=úrde in a =b=óure, | ase =b=éryl so =b=rýght, Ase =s=áphir in =s=élver | =s=émly on =s=ýht, Ase =i=áspe þe =g=éntil, | þat =l=émeþ wiþ =l=ýht, Ase =g=érnet in =g=ólde, | and =r=úby wel =r=ýht._
In similar lines are written several other poems, as _=M=on in þe =m=one_ (ibid. p. 110); _Of =r=ibaudz y =r=yme_ (Wright's _Pol. Songs_, p. 237); and five songs by Laurence Minot (nos. ii, v, ix, x, xi), written in the middle of the fourteenth century.
§ =60.= In other poems the four-beat long lines used in the main part of the stanza are followed by shorter lines forming the cauda, which in part are of a variable rhythmic cadence either of three beats (or three measures) or of two beats, as e.g. in the well-known poem in Percy's _Reliques_, ii, p. 1.[113] The first stanza may be quoted here:
_Sitteþ alle stílle | and hérkneþ to mé: Þe kýng of Alemáigne, | bi mi léauté, Þrítti þousent pound | áskede hé Forte máke þe pées | in þé countré, Ant só he dùde móre. Ríchard, þah þou be éuer tríchard, Trícchen shàlt þou néuer mòre._