Search results

"English" is in English, the word "writable" is writable, and the word "pentasyllabic" has five syllables. The opposite, a heterological word, does not apply...

the English word "English" is autological, as are "unhyphenated" and "pentasyllabic". An adjective is heterological if it does not describe itself. Hence...

as the seguidilla, i.e. seven lines of alternating heptasyllabic and pentasyllabic verses. Lyrics vary widely from performer to performer, and every singer...

that it arose from the yuefu form in the fifth or sixth century. This pentasyllabic song form, dominant in the Six Dynasties period, may have carried over...

This page has a list of closed pairs of English rhyming words—in each pair, both words rhyme with each other and only with each other. bairn, cairn boosts...

rise of the ci form. Within the shi form, there was a preference for pentasyllabic lines, which had been the dominant metre since the second century C...

Tsar (1834–1836) was the first time a composer of art music set the pentasyllabic hemistichs of Russian wedding songs in quintuple meter instead of adapting...

Poetry during this period abandoned tetrasyllabic verse in favor of pentasyllabic verse. The ballads of Chu spread through China and became widely popular...

of Shi in Tang dynasty in heptasyllabic (with seven characters) and pentasyllabic (with five characters) style: 白雪歌送武判官归京 （岑参） 月下独酌（李白） 北风卷地白草折，胡天八月即飞雪。...

Khevi and served as a secretary to the queen Tamar. Based upon a new, pentasyllabic, verse-form (chakhrukhauli), Chakhrukhadze's poetry is remarkable for...

be enough to stick my hatpin in!" Zong-Qi Cai described the poem as "pentasyllabic regulated verse", while Arthur Cooper likened it to a "Chinese sonnet"...

lips of the people. Only when St. Ephrem composed hymns in the same pentasyllabic metre and had them sung to the same tunes as the psalms of Bardaisan...

Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry is foundational for the studies of the birth and evolution of...

ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2. Cai, Zong-qi (2007-12-14). "Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated-Verse". In Zong-qi Cai (ed.). How to Read Chinese Poetry....

Songs contain 670 poems by many different authors, mainly comprising pentasyllabic poetry but also some yuefu lyrical verse and other types of poems. New...

heptasyllabic, although one (Pour la meillour) is decasyllabic and there are pentasyllabic lines in the others. All are in bar form with the exception of Amours...

Qing-era Complete Library of the Four Treasuries: Li Ye excelled at pentasyllabic shi poetry ... If her poems were mixed with the corpus of the Ten Talented...

Shnorhali introduced several innovations, including personification and the pentasyllabic iamb, which became a standard for later poets. The work contributed...

verses of seven syllables formed of two measures (4+3 or 3+4), and pentasyllabic verses of five syllables also formed of two measures (2+3 or 3+2). These...

terms, he preferred using heptasyllabics (seven character lines) to pentasyllabics (five character lines) (123 to 47 examples in Wu Zaiqing's edition of...