How To Use Syllable In A Sentence

After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
Some people prefer a single syllable such as "peace", as it is easier to chant. Coping with Stress at Work
She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
A tanka is a 31 syllable poem that pre-dates the Haiku. BC Bloggers
In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.

The accent falls on the third syllable.
He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
Maggie, what we are writing here are mostly senryu. same syllable counts 5-7-5. Southern Haiku Contest!
Objective To evaluate Test-retest reliability of Mandarin monosyllable lists with equivalency in audibility in hearing loss group.
Shakespeare often wrote in iambic pentameter, meaning five iambic "feet" per line, each "foot" being a soft-hard syllable pair … da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM. Chicagotribune.com -
The Jolly Bottle, the Jolly Bottle, "cried Habershaw, pronouncing this word according to ancient usage, with the accent on the last syllable, as if spelt" bottel; "" give us the Jolly Bottle, we all know the chorus of that song. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.
All the ills of a mighty nation are expressed in a single high-pitched syllable. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes there are two consecutive lines having such hypermetrical syllables -- The Principles of English Versification
If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables. Archive 2007-08-01
The soprano sings the text, often one syllable at a time, at the extreme top of her range.
When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
In all but parts of eastern Slovakia, the stress is on the first syllable of a word; longer words (three or more syllables) have secondary accents.
There's a stress on the second syllable.
Two or more one-syllable words may be joined together, however, usually connected by a hyphen, to form a compound word.
[14] In the Greek, however short the metre and however long the ode, there is no weariness from monotony; for the interchange of anapaest, dactyl, and spondee, in the lines of from only four to six syllables each, makes a constant and pleasing variety. Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets
In the word 'dinner' the accent is on the first syllable.
The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables.
Fully deserving of every syllable of praise it has received, this album should gain a very healthy cult following. - Mike Hogan
The low guttural syllables meant nothing to her, but the weary tone did.
SONIC REDUCER Music journalism pet peeve no. 538: e-mail interviews that allow mealymouths and word mincers to dodge and defer from behind an iron wall of monosyllables. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
(c) _The third measure_ -- called the dactylic measure -- is formed of a combination of three syllables. Writing for Vaudeville
Accentuate the word " accent " on the first syllable.
The six verses of the excerpt are eleven to fifteen syllables long and cannot, therefore, be classified as a specific meter within Italian poetry.
It will be observed that this hymn provided syllables only for the six tones of the _hexachord_ then recognized; when the octave scale was adopted (early in the sixteenth century) the initial letters of the last line (s and i) were combined into a syllable for the seventh tone. Music Notation and Terminology
His voice suddenly accelerated into one long run-on sentence, a stuttering river of syllables. GENIE ON THE LOOSE
_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
If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables. Archive 2007-08-01
The main characteristic regarding accent in Japanese is that the highest accent is on the penult (second to the last syllable).
Put the stress on the second syllable.
As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
Shakespeare chooses names for them that are similar almost the the point of interchangeability: Hermia, Helena, both trisyllabic, beginning in 'He' with the stress on the first syllable and ending in 'a'. Shakespeare
But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable.
The tonemes radically increase the number of admissible syllables - even if far from all possibilities are actually being used.
More precisely, you adapt a variation of decasyllabic meter, where your lines alternate between thirteen and seven syllables each.
Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
He commences slowly, as if repeating the syllable, _de de de de de de d 'd' d 'd' d 'd' d 'r' r 'r'_, -- increasing in rapidity, and at the same time rising as it were by semi-tones, or chromatically, to about a major fourth on the scale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
English spelling is difficult because syllable sounds change with the variation of stress. Times, Sunday Times
When 'insert' is a verb, the stress is on the second syllable, but when it is a noun, the stress is on the first syllable.
Japanese write as a repetition of the syllables jun-ta; and the name junta is sometimes given to the grasshopper itself. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
Sharp-eyed observers may notice the addition of one tiny syllable to this site overnight.
Word-final b is rare, occurring mainly in monosyllables (hub, rib, scab), but occasionally in longer words (superb, disturb, cherub) Double B
That might have been disturbing enough for some of the residents if I hadn't been peppering the conversation with swear words every other syllable.
the primary stress is on the third syllable, and the secondary stress is on the first syllable.
Concentrating on defending herself, S'aturinni bought the Major enough time to mumble slightly different syllables, his gemmed gauntlets flashing red this time as a volley of prismatic darts materialised.
* Note: it seems to me that IE phonology had syllabification rules which favored open syllables, i.e. most consonant clusters would be analyzed as onsets rather than sequences of coda(s)-plus-onset(s). Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions
Those antibiotics must be kicking in because his sentences are fractured and he has a habit of repeating a single syllable. Times, Sunday Times
English spelling is difficult because syllable sounds change with the variation of stress. Times, Sunday Times
A plausible explanation may be that, when - oo occurs as a slang suffix rather than an infix (as in superoo for super or smasheroo for smash (er)), the primary stress of the word shifts from the first syllable to the last. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
It wasn't very good anyway, being based, it seems, on an American kindergarten dictionary and thus any word over 2 syllables or seven letters was automatically flagged.
They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left, only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity.
-- It must be remembered that when for the sake of exercise or effect syllables are extended in time, they must be so uttered that their identity is not impaired, -- that is, their enunciation must be free from mouthing. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Other things like intricate swing dance moves working on it or the correct pronunciation of multisyllable words, not so easily. Unlawful Common Knowledge : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
Both syllable construction and phrasing function inherit and develop onomatopoeic of Yuanqu, and showed clear age special features of live.
Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms.
This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like _ego illi_, _age ergo_, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
To me, Li'l Shia seems born for screwball comedy; he has a ring-a-ding Joey Bishop-on-amphetamines style of delivery that never skips a syllable. Michael Bay, movie-making maverick?
On ‘Dreamers,’ the first syllable Frost sings sounds so brittle and fragile it seems about to shatter into ice crystals at any moment.
Students in the low-level group were not reading words but were learning letter names and sounds, and how to blend consonant and vowel sounds to make syllables.
His regimented execution of marcato and sforzando articulation, sometimes even on weak syllables, sounds like choral dressage. Times, Sunday Times
Call a grunting double coo, with accent on second syllable.
Usually, in the long lines, the inner accent falls on the fourth syllable, with syllabic stress on the eighth, and with cesura after the fifth syllable. Modern Spanish Lyrics
His program note explains the gyrations: "In L.S.O., L equals the solfège syllable la, which is the note A; S becomes the note that is known as Es pronounced s in German, which is what English speakers call E flat; and O elides with the preceding S to suggest the solfège syllable sol, which is the note G. NYT > Home Page
I have also ventured to invent a metre for that technically known as the Fourth Archilochian, the "Solvitur acris hiems," by combining the fourteen-syllable with the ten-syllable iambic in an alternately rhyming stanza. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables.
Here, there are 19 syllables in Latin and only 15 in English, so you'll have to spread a few of the words out over some neume-groups. Pánis, quem égo dédero
For me ‘the strong, silent type’ conjures up images of slit-eyed Clint Eastwood, mumbling a few well chosen syllables before dispatching some low-life to oblivion with his enormous gun.
What proportion of Macaulay's words in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 are monosyllables and dissyllables? Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School
All in all, she's no David Attenborough (who speaks at the perfect speed, whether you're taking notes or just absorbing every syllable of his beautifully written scripts).
One of Bucket's favorite Taglian lieutenants, stuck with the name Lhopal Pete to distinguish him from a sergeant everybody called Khusavir Pete (both "Petes" deriving from the center syllable of an eleventeen-syllable Gunni godname), came to tell his leader he would need to bring up a lot more water if the men were going to take care of all the cleanup I wanted them to do while I explored beyond the Shadowgate. She Is The Darkness
VD speaks in intimidating, poorly-enunciated monosyllables and eventually helps a couple members of the original party make it to safety, though everyone else gets devoured by the light-hating bug aliens of DOOM. Tuesday hodge-podge post
Their equivalent of an alphabet was similar to a Japanese syllabary, where each symbol stood for a syllable in their tongue.
WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
initialism," the difference being it is an abbreviation using only first letters of words; an acronym being a new word created by the first letters, syllables or even arbitrary parts of the original words. Post-gazette.com - News
He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
The reason of this unusual rapidity of movement is the unusual character of the eight-syllable verse as acatalectic, almost all other kinds of verse being catalectic on at least one syllable, implying a final pause of corresponding duration. Confessions of a Book-Lover
In another example, we observed that only 28% of the teachers could correctly identify the sound of a schwa, as represented in the final syllable of the word ‘happen.’
There is the question of sound, from letter to syllable to line, at least as important to poet and translator as meaning. The Times Literary Supplement
It is inconceivable to me how a person can add syllables to the word "colored," yet Howard found a way. Rodney Barnes: Red Tails
It tastes of deepening autumn and makes me long for one or two haiku [seventeen-syllable Japanese poems to capture the feeling.
Where the adjectives and adverbs have two or more syllables, most of them are compared by the use of the adverbs _more_ and _most_, or, if the comparison be a descending one, by the use of _less_ and _least_; as, _beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful_, and Practical Grammar and Composition
In many oscine species, song or syllable repertoire size increases from young to older birds, although not in all studies.
WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
English spelling is difficult because syllable sounds change with the variation of stress. Times, Sunday Times
The eparch was from these parts, and pronounced the good god's name in the old-fashioned, two-syllable way. Bridge of the Separator
Frankly, some foul language can convey such complex, multivalent ideas in single syllables it feels a shame to try to elaborate and risk losing one iota of poignancy in a heated moment.
So a disyllabic wordform in Mid IE MIE of the shape *CVC.CV- should have preserved its final schwa because if it had disappeared, it might create problems with the distribution of the consonants in the remaining syllables1. What happened to Pre-IE's inanimate thematics?
The syllable that Ben has spelled ‘er’ would be pronounced as an r-colored vowel - a rhotic schwa - which is essentially just a vocalic form of the syllable-final [r] in ‘care’.
Meanwhile, the Crown is held to account for every syllable uttered, all the while keeping an eye on the allocated budget, which tends to result in asinine decisions to only take to trial cases which are absolute slam dunks.
In Samoan words all syllables are given equal timing with a slight accent placed on the penultimate syllable.
I think it's the end-stress that lends some words to becoming one syllable - like the word jaguar goes from 'JAG-u-er' to Reddit.com: what's new online!
Accentuate the word " accent " on the first syllable.
We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
The form of the poem, or rather the form of the line, is one I come back to again and again: decasyllables.
WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Some people labour on to the last syllable. Times, Sunday Times
It is also found in hendecasyllable, hendecagon, and hendecahedron. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4
It sends adrenaline zooming through my veins, fills me with vim, zest, zip and other monosyllables containing letters that score high in Scrabble.
Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Did the second syllable rhyme with that in mirage? Times, Sunday Times
Was it the Greek verse, containing one senarius with a long syllable before the caesura in the fifth foot, as Herbert pointed out to his brother on the very evening when that hideous oversight -- say rather crime -- had been openly perpetrated in plain black and white on a virgin sheet of innocent paper? Philistia
His discussion of iambic pentameter (five stresses to a line, with the stress on the second syllable of each unit) is thorough and contains extensive examples.
The genius of the language has been described as accumulative: it "tends rather to add syllables or letters, making farther distinctions in objects already before the mind, than to introduce new words. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Almost all of the novice teachers spent time working on lax or short vowel sounds, tense or long vowel sounds, and consonant digraphs; on the closed syllable type; and on decoding words with a variety of closed syllable patterns.
The keys for lexical access are stressed syllables in the word corresponding to the input syllable type.
Each line of ‘I mari del Sud’ begins with a decasyllable composed of three anapestic feet.
After blending consonants and vowels, syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
To be consistent, a tutor should take the same proleptical course with regard to the prosody of the Latin language: every Latin hyperdissyllable is manifestly accentuated according to the following law: if the penultimate be long, that syllable inevitably claims the accent; if short, inevitably it rejects it -- _i.e. _ gives it to the ante-penultimate. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
Moreover, as noted in section 5.2.1, there is a marked tendency for polysyllabic words to commence with a stressed syllable.
The nonsense syllables of the parent have no dictionary definitions. Christianity Today
A close cousin of appellation is nickname except nicknames can be silly syllables, as with ‘Moopsy’ which is also a hypocorism.
Each syllable is written as a combination of consonants and vowels, plus the tone mark.
Brilliant as he was indefatigable, he recreated the Zuni past from their syllables and potsherds.
The children mimic her arm movements as they belt out a deafening do-re-mi song of nonsense syllables. Soap Operas, Frozen Food And Convertibles
Put the stress on the second syllable.
A trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.
Stressed syllables retain full vowel quality, whereas unstressed syllables may have weak vowels.
The word spilled out of her in a hushed stream of syllables, that awful combination of consonants and vowels that spelled shame and death for any woman in what was politely called the ‘entertainment’ business.
Sharp-eyed observers may notice the addition of one tiny syllable to this site overnight.
You stress the first syllable in 'happiness'.
He likewise observes that it is a proper medium between the different feet above-mentioned: -- the proportion between the long and short syllables, in every foot, being either sesquiplicate, duple, or equal. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
He pronounced each syllable of the word "chalybeate" very clearly, for it was a newly learned word, and he was proud of his ability to use it. Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas
His program note explains the gyrations: "In L.S.O., L equals the solfège syllable la, which is the note A; S becomes the note that is known as Es pronounced s in German, which is what English speakers call E flat; and O elides with the preceding S to suggest the solfège syllable sol, which is the note G. NYT > Home Page
Sing by note" is not correct if the direction means simply to sing the sol-fa syllables, whether in sight reading, rote singing, or memory work. Music Notation and Terminology
The dissyllable termination, which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama, is to be found, though, I think, not in Gorboduc which is confessedly before our authour; yet in Hieronnymo, of which the date is not certain, but which there is reason to believe at least as old as his earliest plays. Preface to Shakespeare
A sequence of atonic closed vowel + open vowel + atonic closed vowel can be pronounced, in certain cases, as one syllable, a triphthong, and in others as two distinct syllables, with a hiatus followed by a diphthong, or vice versa. Triphthongs in Spanish
As its signs represent native syllables (such as sa and ke), TRANSLITERATION almost invariably produces phonetic change.
The easy rule is: It’s almost impossible for English verse to have three unstressed syllables in arow. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet
Let's assume that long syllables take just twice as long to say as short ones.
Occasionally the term choriambus is used of English verses - a foot made up of two light syllables between two stressed ones.
We have alternately one long or forcible syllable, and two short or light ones, recurring over and over.
The normally-stressed vowel is deleted, with stress shifted back to the initial syllable.
-- In this word the diphthong ue is entirely sunk, as well as in the words dialogue, synagogue, &c; out in the words prorogue, disembogue, &c., it is not entirely sunk, for it has the evident effect of lengthening the final syllable. The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to
A sequence of atonic closed vowel + open vowel + atonic closed vowel can be pronounced, in certain cases, as one syllable, a triphthong, and in others as two distinct syllables, with a hiatus followed by a diphthong, or vice versa. Triphthongs in Spanish
And regarding this delightful secret, not one syllable more was said by either of the young women. Vanity Fair
Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal, meaning that it consists mainly of one-syllable words and that the tone of a word affects meaning.
In this scenario, the first stop resists change in order to avoid excess breathiness and articulatory effort in this syllable. Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2
Here the English long and short syllables -- as far as "long" and "short" can be definitely distinguished in English -- correspond precisely to the rules of Roman prosody. A Study of Poetry
Even the iambic, which consists of one short and one long syllable; or that foot which is equal to the choreus, having three short syllables, being therefore equal in time though not in the number of syllables; or the dactyl, which consists of one long and two short syllables, if it is next to the last foot, joins that foot very trippingly, if it is a choreus or a spondee. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
One was called the nomenclator: a catalog of numbers, each standing for a word, syllable, phrase or letter. Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist
The only diacritical marks here employed are the acute accent for stressed syllables and the apostrophe between two vowels to indicate the glottic closure or interruption of sound (improperly sometimes called a guttural) that prevents the two from coalescing. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
The passage is a rather dense one, with 46 syllables, for an relatively high average (for English) of 1.78 syllables / word.
In this research, even the syllables, or the letters, or the bigrams (or trigrams) that are theoretically possible in Greek could have been suitable.
Lexa tried to repeat the name and fumbled over the made-up syllables and vowel sounds thrown in at random.
On palma the MS. gives a liquescent note, on the first syllable of adnunciandum it has a podatus (a c, or d f, as this notation should be read a fifth lower) instead of a single note; in the last, a podatus instead of an epiphonus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Avelacuna died as the final syllable was uttered, and no explanation could be gotten from her, for elves did not practice the dark art of necromancy, the act of returning the soul to the body, if only for a little time.
All of those can be rationalized or ignored by people who are now going over every syllable Cindy Sheehan utters.
Just like my mother can hone in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable.
Specifically, tone is a pitch contour that begins on an accented SYLLABLE and continues to the end of a tone group: that is, up to but not including the next stressed syllable.
WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
The first hemistich which was composed of 17 syllables grew to be called the hokku, the second or finishing hemistich of 14 syllables was called ageku. Japanese Prints
When written in [[English]], both types are in iambic pentameter, that is each line is of five beats (iambs), with the stress on the second syllable in each two-syllable beat. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
And Carinthia Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
The following discussion presupposes a non-rhotic dialect of English, that is, a dialect in which r can only occur in syllable-onset position.
At the same time, writing became more widespread, mainly using a simplified alphabet of only forty-seven syllables.
The nonsense syllables of the parent have no dictionary definitions. Christianity Today
So far as I know, this particular Finnish polysyllable never made it into any of Tolkien's languages.
There is no news story that cannot be reduced to a word of three syllables, and whole sentences bore us.
The monosyllable is short, sounds well, and is understood by all denominations of Christians. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier
The name is not Iroquois -- yet it may be, too -- a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape. The Reckoning
Latvian words are stressed on the first syllable, and written Latvian is largely phonetic.
Every time the bird compares its own subsong to the memorized template, the syllables most similar to those present in the template become slightly more probable.
While I had taught the simple five-seven-five syllable poems in my classroom for years, I was unaware of what it really meant to write haiku.
= Note the quadrisyllable ending, and compare _EP_ II ix The Last Poems of Ovid
And Mr.C. clasped me in his arms and called me his 'guardian angel;' and all I have to pay for this restoration of peace and quietness is giving a lesson three times a week, in syllables of two letters, to a small Irish boy! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Then they learned to read by pronouncing nonsense syllables formed by combining consonants with vowels, such as ba-he-bi.
English, both types are in iambic pentameter, that is each line is of five beats (iambs), with the stress on the second syllable in each two-syllable beat. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The thing is possible: and I can modestly say that in the little effort appended as an example to these lines it has been done successfully; but here must be mentioned the second point in my thesis -- I could never have achieved what I have here achieved in dramatic art had I not harked back to the great tradition of the English heroic decasyllable such as our On Something
The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff). French Word-A-Day:
Lower down the stave, articulation was soft-pedalled to such an extent that some syllables never carried beyond the platform. Times, Sunday Times
Consequently, we need to scrutinize next the role of prosody, as well as the role of the word, syllable, and phonotactic nature of children's speech.
Italian words usually have the main stress on the penultimate syllable in the word.
Three and four letter words, which eventually became three and four syllable words, which she memorized from the books she was (forever!) trying to get someone to read to her. 2008 February « Becca’s Byline
On the first syllable of equas a tristopha takes the place of the trigon. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Ovid admitted quadrisyllable endings more freely if they were proper names. The Last Poems of Ovid
Note that the duration indicated is that of the syllable, not of the pitch, so that a "diseme" may include two pitches (as in the second line) and the "triseme" one, two, or three (as at the end of each line). Archive 2009-04-01
The stress on the last syllable is light.
But the most dramatic departure is found in the final line, which contains two dactyls and a single accented syllable which we have to regard as the initial syllable of a third dactylic foot.
For the text which refers to the man 'who has read the Veda' enjoins works on him who has merely _read_ the texts, and _reading_ there means nothing more than the apprehension of the aggregate of syllables called The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
A skilled Dakota farmer (like a Murphy poem) therefore wastes no syllable, no bit of dirt.
A trochee is a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short.
The second, with its mixture of monosyllables and disyllables - listen, walking, chamber - sustains the alliterative flourish of Melting melodious words.
Singing in English at the impossibly low volumes she favors, syllables are often lost as her voice shows fine cracks.
Preserving the iambic senarii proved too restrictive, so I switched to a vaguely anapaestic waltz rhythm and made up a tune that allowed our singer to put a comic pause, if she wished, before the final syllables at the end of each line.
TQ's lyrics were much more abstract than mine, filled with multisyllable words and strange metaphors. EARL -The Autobiography of DMX
These examples have a military marching rhythm to them, but it is possible, with alliteration, assonance and heavier syllables in those unstressed positions, to give the verses a more ambiguous feel, so that they seem to go back and forth more readily between a straight iambic (or trochaic) and a dipodic sound — such as the Hardy poem Steve discusses in his post. Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The practice of extending a single syllable out over many notes is known in music as "melisma". Ch-ch-ch-changes...
Well, according to Wikipedia, the word guru is composed of the two syllables "gu", signifying darkness, and "ru", signifying "the destroyer of that darkness". Verena von Pfetten: Step XI Of My Spiritual Journey: In Which I Seek A Guru
He was surrounded by music from birth and learned to sight-sing (that is, to use sol-fa syllables for practicing melodies). Frank Loesser
The emphasis should be on the first syllable.
Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
Beginning 'There is is no longer any Temple of the Sun' there is a disturbing resonance with the recognition by both Lettrists and Situationists that the 33rd degree Masonry embodied the final syllable of the secret word JAHBULON as a reference to the Biblical city of On - more recently Heliopolis - refined by ANONYMOUS to the deceitful (cunning) Albertopolis - a name which covertly draws in the European Monarchical cabbala linking the Kaiser to Ra, the sun-God, rededicated to Osiris, God of the Dead. Brit Lit Blogs
_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
She was particularly perplexed by geometry; she aroused our hilarity by always calling a parallelogram a parallel-O-gram, with a strong emphasis on the penultimate syllable; and she spent several days repeating over to herself, with a mystified countenance, the famous words, "The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs. Hawthorne and His Circle

How To Use Syllable In A Sentence

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