Sexasyllabic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sexasyllabic is an adjective meaning Alternative form of sexisyllabic.
Meaning
Alternative form of sexisyllabic.
Example Sentences
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).
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.
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[…]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include octasyllabic, octosyllabical, duodecasyllabic, polysyllabical, syllabical, sexigesimal.
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