_tō =c=wále =c=níhta fḗorum._ Dan. 226. =Type C C=, × . . . . –́ –́ –̆́×, occurs only nine times, of which six are in the second hemistich, as _þæt wæs =g=ód ǽlmíhtig._ Cross 396; with resolution of the first accented syllable, _ne sē =b=rýne =b=ḗtmǽcgum._ Dan. 265, _þē þæt =w=éorc stáðoláde._ And. 800. Other combinations are given by Sievers, _Altgermanische Metrik_, § 95, but these occur so rarely or are so doubtful that they need not be mentioned here. A few lengthened hemistichs have four beats, as _engel in þone ófn ínnan becwṓm._ Dan. 238, and others in Sievers's _Altgermanische Metrik_, § 96. Formation of Stanzas and Rhyme. § =40.= OE. poetry is mainly narrative, and does not run into any kind of recurring stanza or strophe, but is entirely stichic. Traces of an arrangement of lines so as to form a stanza are found in Dēor, the Runic Poem, the Psalms and Hymns, the so-called First Riddle, and in the Gnomic verses of the Exeter Book, which may be compared to the Old French 'tirades'.[94] On the other hand, end-rhyme of the two hemistichs, combined with alliteration, is not very uncommon, though in most cases it seems only an incidental ornament, as _=f=ýlle ge=f=ǣ́gon; =f=ǽgere geþǣ́gon._ Beow. 1014. _=w=órd-gyd =w=récan ond ymb =w=ér sprécan._ Beow. 3172. In the Rhyming Poem of the Exeter Book we have eighty-seven lines in which the first and second hemistichs rhyme throughout, and in some passages of other poems, noticeably in the _Elene_, vv. 114-115, and vv. 1237-1251, in which Cynewulf speaks in his own person, or Crist 591-595, And. 869-871, 890, Gūthl. 801, Phoen. 15-16, 54-55; assonance is found not unfrequently alongside of perfect rhyme, as in Gūthl. 802, Phoen. 53. These places are sufficient to prove a systematic and deliberate use of rhyme, which serves to accentuate the lyrical tone of the passages. Monosyllabic rhymes such as _nān: tān_ (Rhym. Poem 78), _rād: gebā́d_ (ib. 16), _onlā́h: onwrā́h_ (ib. 1) are called masculine, and disyllabic rhymes like _wóngum: góngum_ (ib. 7), _géngdon: méngdon_ (ib. 11), or trisyllabic _hlýnede: dýnede_ (ib. 28), _swínsade: mínsade_ (ib. 29), _bífade: hlífade_ (ib. 30), are called feminine. According to their position in the hemistich, rhymes fall into two classes (_a_) interior rhymes like _hónd rónd gefḕng_ Beow. 2609, _stī́ðmò̄d gestṓd_ Beow. 2567, in compounds _wórd-hòrd ontḗac_ Beow. 259, in co-ordinate formulae like _þā wæs sǣ́l and mǣ́l_ Beow. 1008, _wórdum and bórdum_ El. 24, _grund ond sund_ And. 747, and as so-called grammatical rhymes _lāð wið lāðum_ Beow. 440, _béarn æfter béarne_, Gen. 1070; (_b_) sectional rhymes joining the two halves of one line, as _=s=écgas mec =s=ǣ́gon =s=ýmbel ne ālǣ́gon._ Rhym. P. 5; not unfrequently, very often in the Rhyming Poem, two, three, four or more alliterative lines are connected in this fashion.