disyllable

• “The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff).”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" to stuff.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “= The same phrase in the same position (leaving space for the disyllable) at _EP_ III iii 26 'et coit astrictis _barbarus”

  The Last Poems of Ovid

• “It is particularly frequent in the latter half of the pentameter, immediately before the disyllable: compare, from many instances, _AA_ III 431-32 '_ire_ solutis/crinibus et fletus non”

  The Last Poems of Ovid

• “= The word is metrically suited to the second half of the pentameter, before the disyllable: compare Tib I ii 70 & II iii 52,”

  The Last Poems of Ovid

• “_Nec (non) meminisse_ is metrically useful for filling the second hemistich of the pentameter up to the disyllable; so used at vi 50 'arguat ingratum non meminisse sui', _Tr_”

  The Last Poems of Ovid

• “Every pentameter of the amatory poems and the first fifteen _Heroides_ ends in a disyllable.”

  The Last Poems of Ovid

• “It is often said that the power of liquidness and fluidity in Chaucer’s 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.”

  The Study of Poetry

• “Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file, without one disyllable betwixt them.”

  Dedication

• “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.”

  Latin Literature

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