That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable. ❋ Unknown (1784)
He wrote the book, and much of the rest of his life's work, in rhyming anapestic meter, also called trisyllabic meter. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Plus, it just sounds better as a trisyllabic epithet. ❋ Unknown (2010)
** The Fog Index: [(number of words/number of sentences) + words three syllables and above, not counting proper nouns or words made trisyllabic with simple "- ing" type suffixes] x 0.4 = the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Obama, too, is now strongly associated with a straightforward, trisyllabic message -- "Yes we can" -- although instead of imperatively employing a negative of a negative ( "Don't be evil"), his is an optimistic, election-ready double positive. ❋ Unknown (2008)
However, although his actual name isn't Miltonic or especially literary, it is indeed trisyllabic with a disyllabic nickname, and Latinate, and has at least a sort of Early Modern connection. ❋ Flavia (2007)
Shakespeare chooses names for them that are similar almost the the point of interchangeability: Hermia, Helena, both trisyllabic, beginning in 'He' with the stress on the first syllable and ending in 'a'. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)
"Neutrinics" was trisyllabic nonsense to Mrs. Potterley, but she knew it had nothing to do with history. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1990)
The normal blank verse line calls for five stressed syllables and five unstressed syllables; but when two light syllables are naturally and easily uttered in the time of one, trisyllabic feet occur, sometimes with and sometimes without special effect -- ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
And the following line (Comus, 8) contains an extra syllable at the end, one in the middle, and also a trisyllabic effect at the beginning -- ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
Fifteen-syllable lines, with caesura at eighth syllable; every line ending in a trisyllabic word, rhyming (not always) with a word preceding the caesura. ❋ Anonymous (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)
= There are twenty trisyllabic pentameter endings in ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
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. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
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_. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
For Ovid's use of trisyllabic and pentasyllabic endings, see at ix 26 ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
Such an omission would be not only possible, but sometimes very effective, in trisyllabic measures, -- as, for instance, in anapests like these, -- ❋ Various (N/A)
This last phenomenon, the trisyllabic (or dactylic, or anapestic) effect, is commonly described as an inversion -- the 'rule' being given that in certain parts of the line the iamb is _inverted_ and becomes a trochee. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
Much more frequent, however, is the trisyllabic effect in which the number of syllables of a line remains constant, that is, in the heroic or 5-stress line does not exceed ten -- ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
