_Then up with your cup, | till you stagger in speech, And match me this catch, | though you swagger and screech, Ah, drink till you wink, | my merry men, each._ Walter Scott, Song from Kenilworth. 2. Very closely related to this is the =inverse rhyme= (as Guest called it), which occurs when the last accented syllable of the first hemistich of a verse rhymes with the first accented syllable of the second hemistich: _These steps both reach | and teach thee shall To come by thrift | to shift withall._ Tusser. This kind of rhyme is generally met with in the popular national long line of four stresses. Guest gives a much wider range to it. But when it occurs in other kinds of verse, as in the iambic verse of four or five feet, it is not to be looked upon as an intentional rhyme, but only as a consonance caused by rhetorical repetition (the examples are quoted by Guest): _And art thou gone and gone for ever?_ Burns. _I followed fast, but faster did he fly._ Shak. Mids. III. ii. 416. 3. The =Leonine[185] rhyme= or =middle rhyme=, which recurs throughout the Old English _Rhyming Poem_, and is occasionally used in other Old English poems. This rhyme connects the two hemistichs of an alliterative line with each other by end-rhyme and, at the same time, causes the gradual breaking up of it into two short lines; we find it in certain parts of the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, in Layamon, in the _Proverbs of Alfred_, and other poems, e.g.: _his sedes to_ sowen, _his medes to_ mowen Prov. 93-4; _þus we uerden_ þere, _and for þi beoþ nu_ here Lay. 1879-80. See §§ 49, 57-58, 78 for examples from Middle and Modern English literature of this kind of rhyme (called by the French _rimes plates_) as well as of the following kind, when used in even-beat metres. 4. The =interlaced rhyme= (_rime entrelacée_), by means of which two long-lined rhyming couplets are connected a second time in corresponding places (before the caesura) by another rhyme, so that they seem to be broken up into four short verses of alternate or cross-rhyme (_a b a b_), e.g. in the latter part of Robert Mannyng's _Rhyming Chronicle_ (from p. 69 of Hearne's edition), or in the second version of _Saynt Katerine_ (cf. the quotations, §§ 77, 78, 150). When, however, long verses without interlaced rhyme are broken up only by the arrangement of the writer or printer into short lines, we have 5. The =intermittent rhyme=, whose formula is _a b c b_ (cf. p. 196). Both sorts of rhyme may also be used, of course, in other kinds of verse, shorter or longer; as a rule, however, the intermittent rhyme is employed for shorter, the alternate or cross-rhyme for longer verses, as, for example, those of five feet.