How To Use Disyllable In A Sentence
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It is particularly frequent in the latter half of the pentameter, immediately before the disyllable: compare, from many instances, _AA_ III 431-32 '_ire_ solutis/crinibus et fletus non
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The call, sometimes preceded by a single note, was a repeated series of disyllables, the second syllable stressed.
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= The same phrase in the same position (leaving space for the disyllable) at _EP_ III iii 26 'et coit astrictis _barbarus
The Last Poems of Ovid
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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Every pentameter of the amatory poems and the first fifteen _Heroides_ ends in a disyllable.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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It is often said that the power of liquidness and fluidity in Chaucers verse was dependent upon a free, a licentious dealing with language, such as is now impossible; upon a liberty, such as Burns too enjoyed, of making words like neck, bird, into a disyllable by adding to them, and words like cause, rhyme, into a disyllable by sounding the e mute.
The Study of Poetry
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A disyllable consists of two syllables, and a trisyllable of three.
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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_Nec (non) meminisse_ is metrically useful for filling the second hemistich of the pentameter up to the disyllable; so used at vi 50 'arguat ingratum non meminisse sui', _Tr_
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" to stuff.
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= The same phrase in the same position (leaving space for the disyllable) at _EP_ III iii 26 'et coit astrictis _barbarus
The Last Poems of Ovid
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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= The word is metrically suited to the second half of the pentameter, before the disyllable: compare Tib I ii 70 & II iii 52,
The Last Poems of Ovid
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_Nec (non) meminisse_ is metrically useful for filling the second hemistich of the pentameter up to the disyllable; so used at vi 50 'arguat ingratum non meminisse sui', _Tr_
The Last Poems of Ovid
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The second, with its mixture of monosyllables and disyllables - listen, walking, chamber - sustains the alliterative flourish of Melting melodious words.
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The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff).
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