In scanning this line, either lerninge is of three syllables (which I doubt) or else the first syllable in Parfit forms a foot by itself; see note to l.
Chaucer so frequently varies the length and accent of a proper name that there is no objection to the supposition that we are here to read Custance in three syllables, with an accent on the first syllable.
Words of three Syllables, accented on the second and third.
E nah shka mah noo min me she nuck e qua sance me quain tun me tig koonce e shkoo ta me sah poose mun tah min ke na pigk me she min nah ma koos ke noo zhai me she kaih nah ma pin Words of three Syllables accented on the first and third.
And it is a fault to make amazed of three syllables, and loved of two, instead of amazed of two, and loved of one.
Now the fact is, that this laconic address, of three syllables, is written wrong; being made bad English for want of a comma between the two words.
The same thing appears in the familiar 23d Psalm, where there are one hundred and nineteen words in all, of which ninety-five are words of one syllable, and only three of three syllables, with none longer.
There are fifty words of two syllables, six of three syllables, of which four are such composite words that they really amount to two words of one and two syllables each, with four words of four syllables, and none over that.
The affair was compromised:" pronounce compromised in three syllables, and place the accent on com, sounding mised like prized.
Consisting of three syllables: Anapestic, when the third syllable is accented.
This foot consists of three syllables, the first of which is accented.
On which syllable is the accent placed when there are three syllables in the foot?
A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c¾st?
A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (?
A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (?
A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (?
The feet which are used in poetry consist either of two or three syllables.
There are four kinds of feet of two, and an equal number of three syllables.
The feet which are used in poetry consist either of two or of three syllables.
And it is a fault to make Amazed of three Syllables, and Loved of two; instead of Amaz'd of two, and Lov'd of one.
One author of eminence pronounces defile in three syllables, def-i-le.
The Tribrach is a foot of three syllables, all short; and it may be used in the third and fourth places.
The Amphibrach is a foot of three syllables, the first and third short, and the second long.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three syllables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
