The hieratic accent is discovered chiefly in the first half of the verse: where the natural accent of a disyllabic word is neglected and the stress falls constantly on the final syllable.
The metre points to a disyllabic form comsing here, and to comsi in l.
These are all the varieties, rhythms, and forms ofdisyllabic words.
Of disyllabic and trisyllabic feet the following descriptive list is given:— [Page 6] A.
Riese remarked, but it can reasonably be doubted that a poet of Ovid's facility would break the rule of the disyllabic ending except by choice.
Mathew, to his brother George, and to Cowden Clarke, he contents himself with the use of frequent disyllabic rhymes, and an occasional enjambement or 'overflow.
Ovid nearly always closes the pentameter with a disyllabic word; but earlier poets, especially Catullus, are less careful in this regard.
The prefix, which was originally a separate adverb modifying the verb, is in poetry sometimes separated from the verb by another word; the disyllabic prepositions in particular often remain as juxtaposed adverbs (396).
It must be admitted that the disyllabic words are not wholly constant to a principle.
Lines like the four last quoted illustrate the normal structure of the rhyming-alliterative verse, especially the relationship of rhyme and alliteration to each other in monosyllabic and disyllabic words.
On the other hand, it seldom happens that the flow of the metre is interrupted by level stress, missing thesis, or the use of a disyllabic thesis at the beginning or in the interior of the verse.
The septenary line, however, in its strict form admits only of monosyllabic caesura and disyllabic ending.
Among the Germanic licences the presence of a disyllabic initial or internal thesis is most noticeable in these which are, so far as is known, the earliest five-foot verses in English poetry; as, e.
We seldom find three-foot verses with disyllabicrhymes throughout.
As several of these examples show, slurring occasionally takes place, so that the ending forms part of a disyllabic thesis, but real syncopation never occurs; cf.
Disyllabic words are made trisyllabic by inserting an e (or rarely i) between mute and liquid, e.
In disyllabic words as a rule the syllable with the primary accent is placed in the arsis of the verse, the other syllable, whether it be an unaccented one, or have a secondary accent, is placed in the thesis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disyllabic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
