§ =202.= The =four-foot trochaic-dactylic verse= is mentioned first by Puttenham (p. 140), and occurs pretty often; seldom unrhymed as in Southey, _The Soldier's Wife_;[176] mostly rhymed, as e.g. in Thackeray, _The Willow Tree_ (p. 261): _Lóng by the wíllow-trees | váinly they sóught her, Wíld rang the móther's screams | ó'er the grey wáter: Whére is my lóvely one? | whére is my dáughter?_ For other specimens with occasional masculine rhymes see _Metrik_, ii, § 238; amongst them is one from Swinburne's _A Century of Roundels_, of principally trochaic rhythm. § =203.= The =three-foot trochaic-dactylic verse= with feminine rhymes occurs in R. Browning, _The Glove_ (iv. 171): _Héigho, yawned óne day King Fráncis, Dístance all válue enhánces! Whén a man's búsy, why, léisure Stríkes him as wónderful pléasure._ Masculine rhymes occur in a song by Moore: _Whére shall we búry our Sháme? Whére, in what désolate pláce, Híde the last wréck of a náme, Bróken and stáin'd by disgráce?_ We have a strict dactylic rhythm, extending to the end of the line, in a short poem, _To the Katydid_, quoted by Goold Brown.[177] § =204. Two-foot dactylic= or =trochaic-dactylic verses= (derived from the corresponding four-foot verses by means of inserted or leonine rhyme) are fairly common; generally, it is true, they have intermittent rhyme (_a b c b_), so that they are in reality four-foot rhyming couplets, merely printed in a two-foot arrangement, as in Tennyson, _The Charge of the Light Brigade_ (p. 260). There are, however, also some poems consisting of real short lines of this metre, i.e. of two-foot lines with alternately tumbling and feminine or tumbling and masculine rhymes; as, e.g., in Burns's _Jamie, come try me_ (p. 258), and in Hood, _The Bridge of Sighs_ (p. 1): Burns. Hood. _If thou should ásk my love, _Óne more unfórtunate, Cóuld I dený thee? Wéary of bréath, Íf thou would wín my love, Rashly impórtunate, Jámie, come trý me._ Góne to her déath!_ Masculine rhymes throughout occur in Thackeray, _The Mahogany Tree_ (p. 51), and in an imitation of the old four-stressed alliterative long line in Longfellow, _The Saga of King Olaf I_ (p. 546): Thackeray. Longfellow. _Chrístmas is hére: _Í am the Gód Thor, Wínds whistle shríll, Í am the Wár God, Ícy and chíll, Í am the Thúnderer! Líttle care wé: Hére in my Nórthland, Líttle we féar My fástness and fórtress, Wéather withóut, Réign I for éver! Shéltered abóut Hére amid ícebergs The Mahógany Trée._ Rúle I the nátions._