The foregoing are called dissyllabic meters; but the trisyllabic measures have the same names according to the number of feet. ❋ Unknown (1891)
The wrenching of accent for metrical purposes, moreover, is not confined to the dissyllabic words which show the simple recession of accent. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
To our ear it is quite out of the question; and, moreover, we affirm that in dissyllabic (which we, for want of a better name, call iambic and trochaic) measures the omission of a half-foot is an impossibility, and all the more so when, as in this case, the preceding syllable is strongly accented. ❋ Various (N/A)
I have tried to give a little of it by the use of dissyllabic rhymes. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
I have never heard any answer suggested to Sir Hilary's dissyllabic prayer. ❋ Various (N/A)
Four lines, in _Locksley Hall_ rhythm, with a dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Anastrophe occurs chiefly with dissyllabic prepositions. ❋ Charles E. Bennett (N/A)
Its metre is _ae freslige_ -- seven-syllable lines in a quatrain, rhyming _abab_: _a_ being trisyllabic, _b_ dissyllabic rhymes. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
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. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
These four movements are variously named: the first two are called _falling_, the second two _rising_; 1a and 2a are called _duple_ or _dissyllabic_, 1b and 2b _triple_ or _trisyllabic_; 1a is called ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Let me instance a poem which, planned for sublimity, keeps tumbling flat upon earth through the inherent fault of the machineI mean Myerss St Paula poem which, finely conceived, pondered, worked and re-worked upon in edition after edition, was from the first condemned (to my mind) by the technical bar of dissyllabic rhyme which the poet unhappily chose. ❋ Unknown (1920)
I am tempted to-day to go farther, and to maintain that, the larger, the sublimer, your subject is, the more impertinent rhyme becomes to it: and that this impertinence increases in a sort of geometrical progression as you advance from monosyllabic to dissyllabic and on to trisyllabic rhyme. ❋ Unknown (1920)
But languages differ vastly in their wealth of rhyme, and differ out of any proportion to their wealth in words: English for instance being infinitely richer than Italian in vocabulary, yet almost ridiculously poorer in dissyllabic, or feminine rhymes. ❋ Unknown (1920)
It constantly utters a sharp, not unpleasant, metallic dissyllabic call, which sounds like _kiss me_, ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
"A loud dissyllabic hoot" is perhaps as good a description of its call as can be given in words. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
It goes about in small flocks and constantly utters a loud plaintive dissyllabic note. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
Finally it is the simple word, dissyllabic in most cases, which attracts the child's attention. ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)
But for the motor centres also the same thing may be repeated; the child utters at the beginning simple or double sounds, as for example bl, gl, ch, an expression which the mother greets with joy; then distinctly syllabic sounds begin to manifest themselves in the child: ga, ba; and, finally, the dissyllabic word, usually labial: mama. ❋ Anne E. Montessori George (1912)
Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
