Usage examples (5)

• An odd number of syllables with a single rhyme, or an even number with a double rhyme, prove the verse to be imparisyllabic.
• In the first example the unaccented syllable with which the imparisyllabic (odd) verse should end is omitted in the second and fourth lines.
• That species of our verse wherein the accent falls on all the odd syllables, I shall call, from that circumstance, odd or imparisyllabic verse.
• 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.