An odd number of syllables with a single rhyme, or an even number with a double rhyme, prove the verse to be imparisyllabic. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
In the first example the unaccented syllable with which the imparisyllabic (odd) verse should end is omitted in the second and fourth lines. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
That species of our verse wherein the accent falls on all the odd syllables, I shall call, from that circumstance, odd or imparisyllabic verse. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
In imparisyllabic verse none, because that consists of trochees invariably; if an unaccented syllable happens to be prefixed to the verse, he will discover it by the number of syllables. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany] Reference
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