sexasyllabic en · ADJ
Etymology
From sexa- + syllabic. Piecewise doublet of hexasyllabic.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of sexisyllabic.
alt of sexisyllabic
This innovative approach is evident in his experiments in the seldom-used sexasyllabic quatrain.
1986, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., editor, The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, volume I, Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 739, column 1: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.
1914, M[orilla] M[aria] Norton, Builders of a Nation: A Series of Biographical Sketches, Manila, page 65: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[…]
1974, Camille Naish, Dual Structures in the Poetry and Prose of Jean Genet: A Genetic Approach, page 52: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.
1979, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Chinese Language Teachers Association, page 13:(Remarks on sexametric quatrains—with comments on the origin, flourishing, and withering of the sexasyllabic line).
2007, Stuart H. Sargent, The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125): Genres, Contexts, and Creativity, Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 475: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.’
1905, James J[esse] Burns, Educational History of Ohio: A History of its Progress Since the Formation of the State Together with the Portraits and Biographies of Past and Present State Officials, Columbus, Ohio: Historical Publishing Co., page 401: