He is not here dropping from dissyllabic to monosyllabic verse, but the last verse too must be considered a line of two syllables.
Uá and uó are regularly dissyllabic except after c, g, and j.
He sometimes hesitates in telling which finger it is, and sometimes he finds out when he moves a finger that it is not the one he thought it was.
Another subject (Mr. George) called it two sixty-two times and one thirty-eight times.
Hylan) called it two seventy-seven times and one twenty-three times.
The material was of the same kind as the words used in the couplet series, being mostly monosyllabic and seldomdissyllabic words.
Preliminary tests, however, made it highly probable that simple concrete dissyllabic words are not more difficult than monosyllabic in 5 secs.
The first change was the substitution of dissyllabic words in the verb and the movement series in the place of monosyllabic words.
For lack of monosyllabic English words the verbs and movements were dissyllabic words.
A distinction should be made between these hypermetrical syllables which change the character of the foot from dissyllabic to trisyllabic, and syllables (in a sense hypermetrical) which are slurred or elided in the reading.
The dissyllabic foot is commonly called an iambus (or iamb) if the unaccented syllable precedes the accented, and a trochee if the accented precedes the unaccented.
In the former the dissyllabic feet are in no sense spondees; in the latter there is an effort to fill them with genuinely long syllables.
Departures from the typical metre may be conveniently classified in five groups: Deficiency in accent; excess of accent; inversion of accent; light syllable added to dissyllabic foot; light syllable omitted in trisyllabic foot.
The usual metrical feet are either dissyllabic or trisyllabic.
So in the following specimens dissyllabic and trisyllabic feet are used interchangeably.
A light syllable inserted in dissyllabic measure is not unusual, though by no means so common as the variations previously enumerated.
This fact is due in part to preference for dissyllabic measures, and in part to the usual indifference, in all Germanic verse, to accuracy in the number of light syllables.
And on hir heed she hadde a crown'; and, only two lines below, has the dissyllabic crownet.
It is the critic, not Gower, who is here at fault; even Gower must have known that dar is monosyllabic, and could not possibly rime with the dissyllabic sb.
To any English metre that aims at swiftness of movement rhyme seems to be an absolute essential, and there are not enough double rhymes in our language to admit of the retention of this final dissyllabic foot.
The wrenching of accent for metrical purposes, moreover, is not confined to the dissyllabic words which show the simple recession of accent.
Moreover, there are in the language so many dissyllabic words of trochaic movement that the resulting frequent coincidence of word and foot tends to produce monotony.
Such a verse with rhymes abab and monosyllabic or dissyllabic finals belongs to the class rannaigecht.
The last place in the line should be occupied by a dissyllabic word—at least it should not be a monosyllable or trisyllable.
Chaucer has sothe at the end of a line in other places, where it rimes with the dissyllabic bothe; G.
The word sholde is dissyllabic here, having more than the usual emphasis; it has the force of ought to.
Surely Milton's ear would never have tolerated a dissyllabic "spirit" in such a position.
May she long be occupied in searching the Scriptures for a dissyllabic king!
Dissyllabic rhymes are beautiful and enriching when they fall in the right place; that is, where there is a pause for the second little syllable to stand.
The two false rhymes at the outset may not be of great importance, but there is something annoying in the dissyllabic rhymes of the second stanza.
That the dissyllabic measures are, in English, commoner than the trisyllabic.
The primary division of the English measures is into the dissyllabic and the trisyllabic.
Lines of this sort may be called examples of convertible metres, since by changing the accent a dissyllabic line may be converted into one partially trisyllabic, and vice vers[^a].
That, of the dissyllabic measures, the second is commoner than the first.
Allowing for indifference of the number of syllables in the last measure, it is evident that in all lines where the measures are dissyllabic the syllables will be a multiple of the accents, i.
The stanza wherein it occurs is essentially dissyllabic (a x).
The number of dissyllabic measures is, of necessity, limited to two.
Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
Four lines, in Locksley Hall rhythm, with a dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
I substitute thedissyllabic swich-e for the monosyllabic these, to preserve the melody.
The substitution of the dissyllabic indeede for Chaucer's monosyllabic be just ruins the scansion of the line; but we must not expect always to find melody in that grossly over-rated poem.
Illustration] Finally it is the simple word, dissyllabic in most cases, which attracts the child's attention.
It goes about in small flocks and constantly utters a loud plaintive dissyllabic note.
The editor of 2nd folio read 'me too,' not being aware of the dissyllabic form of 'our.
We also find this dissyllabic pronunciation in such words as born, morn, horn, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissyllabic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
