"I mean every syllable of it.

There is a short croak of alarm, and the same syllable in a modified tone to serve all the purposes of ordinary conversation.

I took it upon me mysel to pass the word,'No a syllable to Maister Roland, nor to the young leddiesno a syllable.'

" "I will cut out my tongue before a syllable from me shall bring danger to that noble fellow!"

Synalepha is possible with the other combinations, but hiatus is preferable even with the above combinations, in a syllable on which the rhythmical accent falls (see under Rhythmic Accent).

"Turn thee, my father, from this dreadful thought, And save his sacred blood: let not thy name Be syllabled with horror through the world, For such an act as this.

" One can say of this document as Dr. Furness, in his variorum edition of Hamlet, says of the words of that character: "No words by him let fall, no syllable by him uttered, but has been caught up and pondered, as no words except those of Holy Writ.

"As for mountin', I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur.

This definition resolves syllables into sounds; whereas their true elements are letters.

And indeed the paeon, as having more syllables than three, is considered by some people as a rhythm, and not a foot at all.

In other parts of speech it stands on the same syllable as in the ground-form, (that given in the lexicon,) except as required by these rules.

sounding those fine barbaric syllables for the first time, most like, in that world of ice and silence.

There was some question about anapaestics, concerning which I happened to remember what Foster used to tell us at Eton, that the whole line to the Basis Anapaestica was considered but as one verse, however divided in the printing, and consequently the syllables at the end of each line were not common, as in other metres.

Therefore, fácil and nave assonate in á-e; espíritu and líquido, in i-o. If ai occurs in a syllable after an a in the accented syllable, the i rather than the a of the diphthong counts in the assonance.

The foreign agent of a prince, who should whisper a syllable against his master, would be recalled with disgrace; but the servant of the people is differently situated, since there are so many to be persuaded of his guilt.

and the rapture of the scene was sounding in every syllable like chimes out of the distance.

Then she bent her grizzled, woolly head and mumbled off one of those queer old-fashioned graces which consist of a swift string of syllables without pauses between either words or sentences.

A determined number of syllables per line.

You thought that Lippo would see to it that we would sing every syllable before going to bed.

In a verso esdrújulo, the intermediate syllable between the accented syllable and the final syllable does not count, either in enumerating the syllables in the verse or for the rhyme (assonance).

"If there is two, the second increment is the syllable next the last.

The present writer, at any rate, can bear witness to the splendid echo of Browne's syllables amid learned and ancient walls; for he has known, he believes, few happier moments than those in which he has rolled the periods of the Hydriotaphia out to the darkness and the nightingales through the studious cloisters of Trinity.

Their victims, however, are punished for the smallest syllable out of the ordinary that they may utter.

UMLAUT, name given by Grimm to the modification of a vowel in a syllable through the influence of a vowel in the succeeding.

We presume therefore, that the syllables under consideration, [i.e., those which end with the sound of e or o without accent,] may also be properly styled long syllables, though their length is not equal to that of some others.