half-line

Whether the half-line be first or second, it is usually of the A type without anacrusis.

Whether the number of accents in the second half-line was ever diminished to two, may be doubted.

Type E inverts the rhythm of D, as in the half-line "gylp-wordum spræc."

Every normal line of Old English poetry has four primary accents, two in the first half-line and two in the second half-line.