§ =37.= Besides the normal four-beat line (with two beats to each hemistich) there is in OE. and Old Saxon another variety, the =lengthened line= (_Schwellvers_) with three beats in each hemistich.[87] These verses occur in almost all OE. poems, either isolated or more commonly in groups, and occasionally we find lines with one hemistich of two beats and the second hemistich of three, like. _=g=ā́stes dúgeðum þǣ́ra þe mid =g=ā́res órde._ Gen. 1522, and _Jud._ 96, _Crist_ 1461, &c., or with a lengthened hemistich of three beats and a normal hemistich of two beats, like _=b=ǣ́ron =b=rándas on =b=rýne =b=lā́can fȳ́res._ Dan. 246, and _Sat._ 605, _Gnom. Ex._ 200, &c. In the _Psalms_ and in Cynewulf's _Juliana_ they are wanting entirely, in Cynewulf's _Elene_ out of 1321 verses there are only fourteen lengthened whole lines, and three lengthened hemistichs. Examples of groups of these lengthened verses will be found in _Gen._ 44-46, 1015-1019, 2167-2169, 2854-2858; _Exodus_ 569-573, _Dan._ 59-106, 203-205, 226-228, 238-246, 262-271, 435-438, 441, 448, 452-458; _Judith_ 2-12, 16-21, 30-34, 54-61, 63-68, 88-99, 272-274, 289-291, 338-349; _Satan_ 202, 232, 237, 605, _Crist_ 621, 889, 922, 1050, 1382-1386, &c., and in many of the smaller poems.[88] Lengthened verses of a looser type occur in _Salomon and Saturn_, and _Genesis_ B; they have unusually long theses of four or five unaccented syllables after the first accented syllable, as _ǣ́nne hæfde hē swā swī́ðne gewórhtne._ Gen. 252, or have equally long anacruses before the first accented syllable, as _þæt wē him on þām lánde lā́ð gefrémedon._ Gen. 392.[89] It is not always possible to draw a sharp distinction between regular lines with somewhat long first theses and lengthened lines. The general tone and rhythm of the passage in question help to determine whether we have the normal or the lengthened line before us. The lengthened line occurs in places where the sense demands a solemn and slow rhythm, in other cases where the movement of the passage is quicker we may assume a normal four-beat line with a long anacrusis, or a polysyllabic thesis in the middle of the hemistich. What distinguishes clearly undoubted examples of the lengthened verse is that in each hemistich we find three beats and three feet of equal and independent value. But, as in the usual two-beat hemistich of the normal line, both beats need not be equally strong, so in the three-beat hemistich the three beats do not always stand on the same footing as regards stress, nor does the position of the stronger beat require to be always the same in the two hemistichs. The beats which are accompanied by alliteration are, generally speaking, stronger than those without alliteration. In the employment of alliteration and in the structure of the hemistich the lengthened line is closely allied to the normal line.