Try the one, and then the other, by your ear, reading the sentence aloud, first with the word as a dissyllable and then as a monosyllable, and you will feel what I mean.
Dissyllable nouns in er, as cánker, bútter, have the accent on the former syllable.
The metre Sir Charles Bowen has selected is a form of English hexameter, with the finaldissyllable shortened into a foot of a single syllable only.
In justice to Shelley, whose lines I quote, your readers will admit that I have good authority for making a dissyllableof tuberose.
He seems to have been the very Original of our English Tragical Harmony; that is the Harmony of Blank Verse, diversifyed often byDissyllable and Trissyllable Terminations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissyllable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
