In the first couplet the last syllable of the word _gráciùs_, although bearing only a secondary accent and forming the last thesis of the verse, rhymes with the last syllable of the word _=ch=éuailrús_, which likewise in ordinary speech has a secondary accent, but here is the bearer of the fourth metrical accent of the verse. In the second couplet the syllable _lyng_ of the word _wéderlỳng_, which has a secondary accent and forms part of the thesis, rhymes with the word _hyng_ which has the rhythmical accent. In the last group of verses the last syllable of the words _paramour_, _honour_ having secondary accents rhymes with the word _hour_, the bearer of the last rhythmical accent. Similar rhymes occur even in Modern English poetry, e.g. in the works of Thomas Moore: _Váin were its mélodỳ, Róse, without thée_ or _Whát would the Róse bè Únsung by thée?_[115] It also frequently happens that all the rhyming syllables, which have a secondary accent and occur in the thesis of a verse, belong to trisyllabic words, while the accented syllables in the arsis, whether alliterating or not, do not take part in the rhyme, e.g.: _Þou brak gódes Comáundement, To slé such an Ínnocent With ény fals júggement._ Susan, 321-3. Similar unaccented rhymes are also met with in disyllabic words: _'In fáith,' said Schir Rólland, 'That is fúll euill wýn land To háue quhill thow ar léuand.'_ Rauf Coilȝear, 917-19. Other rhymes of the same kind are _sémbland: léuand_, _conséntand: endúrand_, Gol. 428 ff., &c. In all such cases the natural accentuation of the words is not interfered with by the rhythm of the verse. The kind of irregular rhyme most frequently occurring, however, is that which is formed by the unaccented syllable of a disyllabic word (the first syllable of which alliterates and bears the last arsis of the verse) rhyming with a monosyllabic word which likewise bears the fourth rhythmical accent of another alliterative line (or the second of a short line forming part of the cauda) and takes part in the alliteration as well, as e.g. in the rhymes _=T=úskane: sane: =B=rítane: gane_ and _=s=úmmovne: =r=énovne: =c=rovne_ of the above-mentioned stanza of the poem _Golagras and Gawane_. It is not likely that a complete shifting of accent in favour of the rhyming syllable ever took place, as the first syllables of the words usually take part in the alliteration, and therefore have a strongly marked accent. Sometimes, it is true, in the poems of this epoch, unaccented syllables do participate in the alliteration, and in the case of the words _Tuskane_, _Britane_, _summovne_, _renovne_ their Romance origin would explain the accent on the last syllable; but these words, both as to their position and as to their treatment in the line, are exactly on a par with the Germanic rhyme-words in ll. 870-2: