A Metrical Accident

Curious instance of casual metre and rhyme in a prose narrative (The Life of Jerome of Prague). The metre is Amphibrach dimeter Catalectic [breve macron breve] | [breve macron], and the rhymes antistrophic.

Then Jerome did call a From his flame-pointed Fence; b Which under he trod, c As upward to mount d From the fiery flood,-- e

'I summon you all, a A hundred years hence, b To appear before God, c To give an account d Of my innocent blood!' e

July 7, 1826. Now first published from an MS.