We had to find 100 disyllable words for our assignment. From LearnThat.org.
The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff). From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" to stuff. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
= The word is metrically suited to the second half of the pentameter, before the disyllable: compare Tib I ii 70 & II iii 52. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file, without one disyllable betwixt them. From Wordnik.com. [Dedication] Reference
The narrower range of cadence allowed by the rule which makes every couplet regularly end in a disyllable, involves a monotony which only Ovid's immense dexterity enabled him to overcome. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
It is often said that the power of liquidness and fluidity in Chaucers verse was dependent upon a free, a licentious dealing with language, such as is now impossible; upon a liberty, such as Burns too enjoyed, of making words like neck, bird, into a disyllable by adding to them, and words like cause, rhyme, into a disyllable by sounding the e mute. From Wordnik.com. [The Study of Poetry] Reference
Rounding off the line, the straggling disyllable. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
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