sexasyllabic

Example Sentences

• "The latter clause, however, relieves the dilemma in which I should otherwise find myself involved; for I was far from attempting the performance of what the witty Dean Swift once coined a sexasyllabic word for, viz.: ‘sermonification.’"
• "The rhyme and especially the rhythm are entirely different from those of the twelve-syllable Spanish verse; the rhythm is unisonous with the kumintang, a purely Tagalog musical air which is generally used as accompaniment to these dodecasyllabic verses and has a sexasyllabic movement, similar to the monorhythmic romancerillo of six syllables."
• "A syntactical tightness combined with themes Valerian (and Cocteaue sque) make feasible the following comparison between Genet's sexasyllabic lines and a quatrain from Valéry's A l'aurore[…]"
• "That he was also experimental-minded is suggested by the fact that he made rather extensive use of the sexasyllabic quatrain form, something which few poets before him seem to have done."
• "This innovative approach is evident in his experiments in the seldom-used sexasyllabic quatrain."
• "(Remarks on sexametric quatrains—with comments on the origin, flourishing, and withering of the sexasyllabic line)."