Meaning of sexasyllabic | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“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).”

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