It differs from the verse of ON in the predominance of masculine endings, in the larger proportion of trisyllabic feet, and in the number of fourth feet with an additional syllable.
In only two lines trisyllabic feet occur; in only two, final pauses.
Fletcher abounds in double endings, trisyllabic feet, and end-stopped lines, and such conversational or lyrical cadences; Beaumont uses them much more sparingly.
With regard to trisyllabic and polysyllabic words the remarks on pp.
The caesura is variable; masculine in line 1; trisyllabic after the second arsis in line 2; a double caesura occurs in line 3, viz.
If each of the two last syllables of a trisyllabic word has an unaccented e, one of them is generally elided or slurred over under the influence of the rhythmical accent.
Disyllabic words are made trisyllabicby inserting an e (or rarely i) between mute and liquid, e.
That a thesis in Layamon's Brut and in Alfred's Proverbs may be disyllabic or even trisyllabic both in the beginning and the middle of a line is evident from the many examples quoted above.
There occur besides, but seldom, trisyllabic rhymes, such as those in ll.
Trisyllabic and polysyllabic words, too, of French or Latin origin are still used frequently in the beginning of the Modern English period with an accentuation contrary to present usage.
In disyllabic and trisyllabic compounds of nouns with certain prefixes, partly accented in Old English, as e.
In Early Middle English, however, and also in the language of Chaucer, exceptions to this rule are found, trisyllabicscansion occurring chiefly in the plur.
In the verse "Come from the dying moon, and blow" we start out with trisyllabic rhythm, but have only two syllables in the second and in the third foot.
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 trisyllabic foot is commonly called an anapest if the two unaccented syllables precede the accented syllable, and a dactyl if they follow the accented syllable.
The omission of one of the two light syllables from the foot intrisyllabic verse is so common as to make it difficult to find pure anapestic or dactylic verse in English.
So in the following specimens dissyllabic and trisyllabicfeet are used interchangeably.
The limit for trisyllabic substitution is three out of five.
A line or verse generally contains four accented syllables, separated from each other by one or by two unaccented syllables, so that there are some instances of trisyllabic feet, as in ll.
In other cases there is no certainty whether the final «e» is quite silent or must be slightly pronounced or slurred over, so as to form trisyllabic measures.
One is, that such a word as millere is only trisyllabic when accented on the penultimate, as in A 542.
But at the end of the line, the trisyllabic form occurs frequently, owing to the accent, especially in order to secure a rime with an infinitive mood.
Here the dramatic blank verse is perfect, trisyllabic feet being admitted, and the lines running into each other, rimes only appearing in final couplets.
As he advanced in his career, he gradually discarded rime, and admitted the trisyllabic foot more frequently.
Derivatives of words of variable syllabification may imitate their simplex: thus viudo may be either dissyllabic or trisyllabic (cf.
This distribution contrasts with Ovid's increasing fondness in the Ex Ponto for trisyllabic and quadrisyllabic endings, for which see at ix 26 tegeret and ii 10 Alcinoo.
The metre resembles that known as mibhasc (four-syllable and six-syllable lines alternating, but with trisyllabic rhyme in the short lines).
This is known as cro cummaisc etir casbairdne ocus lethrannaigecht, and consists of seven-syllable lines with trisyllabic rhymes, alternating with five-syllable lines having monosyllabic rhymes.
This is written in a peculiar metre; two seven-syllable lines, with trisyllabic rhymes, followed by two rhyming couplets of five-syllable lines with monosyllabic rhymes.
For several mornings in succession I was greeted on waking by thetrisyllabic minor whistle of a chickadee, who piped again and again not far from my window.
The blessed liberty of trisyllabic feet not merely comes like music, but is for the first time complete music, to the ear.
Of disyllabic and trisyllabic feet the following descriptive list is given:— [Page 6] A.
Those of the trisyllabic are distinct; they are more numerous than those mentioned, and the study of them is more complicated.
One class of trisyllabic rhythms still remains, which is composed of two longs and a short.
Of these, none in any of the trisyllabic measures have recognized and technical names; neither have any that are referable to the measure a x.
Similarly, in all lines where the measures are trisyllabic the syllables will also be multiples of the accents, i.
The number of trisyllabic measures is, of necessity, limited to three.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trisyllabic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
