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Could I catch that

Nimble traitor,

Scornful Laura,

Swift-foot Laura,

Soon then would I

Seek avengement.

(Campion: Anacreontics, in Observations in the Art of English Poesie. 1602.)

(In combination with four-stress:)

Dust that covers

Long dead lovers

Song blows off with breath that brightens;

At its flashes

Their white ashes

Burst in bloom that lives and lightens.

(Swinburne: Song in Season.)

(Catalectic, and in combination with three-stress:)

Summer's crest

Red-gold tressed,

Corn-flowers peeping under;—

Idle noons,

Lingering moons,

Sudden cloud,

Lightning's shroud,

Sudden rain,

Quick again

Smiles where late was thunder.

(George Eliot: Song from The Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i. 1868.)

The trochaic measures in The Spanish Gypsy are in imitation of the similar forms in Spanish poetry. See p. 114, below.