Parisyllabic

He knows then that it is parisyllabic verse and from that he can accent the whole piece. ❋ Unknown (1784)

The following is a specimen of the parisyllabic verse, wherein the instances of this trochee beginning the verse are noted: ❋ Unknown (1784)

He should take care not to rely on the first foot of any line, because, as has been before observed, that is often a trochee even in the parisyllabic verse. ❋ Unknown (1784)

That verse wherein the accent is on the even syllables may be called even or parisyllabic verse, and corresponds with what has been called iambic verse; retaining the term iambus for the name of the foot we shall thereby mean an unaccented and an accented syllable. ❋ Unknown (1784)

If he can find in the piece any one word the accent of which he already knows, that word will enable him to distinguish if it be parisyllabic or imparisyllabic. ❋ Unknown (1784)

In the second example the unaccented syllable with which the parisyllabic (even) verse should begin is omitted in the first and fifth lines. ❋ Unknown (1784)

There are some few instances indeed wherein the subordinate accent is differently arranged, as parisyllabic, Constantinople. ❋ Unknown (1784)

In parisyllabic verse, when a trochee begins the verse, he will pronounce that foot wrong. ❋ Unknown (1784)

An even number of syllables with a single rhyme, or an odd number with a double one, prove it to be parisyllabic, e. g. ❋ Unknown (1784)