- The
hexasyllable or
hexasyllabic verse is a line of
verse with six syllables. The
orphan hexasyllable is a
metric specificity of
certain French epic poems...
- line of John Keats's Endymion: "A
thing of
beauty is a joy for ever".
Hexasyllable Octosyllable Decasyllable Dodecasyllable Hal****,
James W.; Ostwald,...
-
University of
Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN 0-226-30482-5
Meter (poetry)
Hexasyllable, the six-syllable line Octosyllable, the eight-syllable line Hendecasyllable...
- Subject(s) Life of
William of
Gellone Genre(s)
Chanson de
geste Form
Laisse Meter Decasyllable with some
hexasyllable lines Media type M****cript
Lines 3,553...
-
stress tetrameter verse used in
narration (as in Chaucer).
meter (poetry)
hexasyllable – 6
syllable line
decasyllable – 10
syllable line
hendecasyllable – 11...
- is
generally called the "alexandrine",
after the
French equivalent.
hexasyllable, octosyllable, decasyllable, and
hendecasyllable —
lines of 6, 8, 10...
- pitches. Each
melodic unit
corresponds to a
fragment of the
Mamelian hexasyllable, in
accordance with the
classical bipartite scheme ("Fratelli / d'Italia...
- long-short-short-long (i.e., a trochee/c****e
alternating with an iamb)
Hexasyllable:
metrical line
consisting of 6 syllables.
Double dactyl Octosyllable:...
- with 6 or 7 syllables. The
endecha is
essentially a
musical form; a
hexasyllable. The verb
endechar - to lament, to sing endechas, is
rarely encountered...
- it
consists of
stanzas of five
lines (two
dodecasyllables and
three hexasyllables) with the last line
always ending in the
refrain (estribillo) "Iherusalem"...
