(THACKERAY: Ballads, _What Makes my Heart to Thrill and Glow?_) _Internal rime._ Internal rime may be regarded on the one side as only a matter of the division of the verse, since if it occurs regularly at the medial cesura, it practically breaks the verse into two parts. On the other side, if used only sporadically, it is a matter of tone-color. It sometimes appears, however, in forms which entitle it to recognition by itself. The earliest of these forms is the "Leonine rime," which is said to have taken its name from Leoninus of St. Victor, who in the twelfth century wrote elegiacs (hexameters and pentameters) in which the syllable preceding the cesura regularly rimed with the final syllable. Obviously lines of this kind would easily break up into riming half-lines. Similarly, in septenary verse internal rime was often used together with end-rime, with a resulting resolution into short-line stanzas riming either _aabb_ or _abab_.[14] The following specimen from a celebrated ballad shows the popular use of a somewhat complex system of internal rime. Be it right or wrong, these men among on women do complaine, Affirming this, how that it is a labour spent in vaine, To love them wele, for never a dele they love a man agayne. For lete a man do what he can, ther favour to attayne, Yet yf a newe to them pursue, ther furst trew lover than Laboureth for nought, and from her thought he is a bannisshed man. (_Ye Nutbrowne Maide._ From Arnold's Chronicle, printed ab. 1502. In Flügel's _Neuenglisches Lesebuch_, vol. i. p. 167.) Haill rois maist chois till clois thy fois greit micht, Haill stone quhilk schone upon the throne of licht, Vertew, quhais trew sweit dew ouirthrew al vice, Was ay ilk day gar say the way of licht; Amend, offend, and send our end ay richt. Thow stant, ordant as sanct, of grant maist wise, Till be supplie, and the hie gre of price. Delite the tite me quite of site to dicht, For I apply schortlie to thy devise. (GAWAIN DOUGLAS: _A ballade in the commendation of honour and verteu_; at the end of the _Palace of Honor_.) Douglas, like his countryman Dunbar, was something of a metrical virtuoso, and his use of internal rime in this ballade is one of his most remarkable achievements. In the first stanza there are two internal rimes in each line, in the second three, and in the third (here quoted) four. I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good, But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold, I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. (Drinking Song in _Gammer Gurton's Needle_.) The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow stream'd off free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. (COLERIDGE: _Rime of the Ancient Mariner._)