10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TETRASYLLABIC»
Discover the use of
tetrasyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tetrasyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook
Tetrasyllabic Shi Poetry We begin with the semantic rhythm and syntactic
constructions of early tetrasyllabic shi poetry. As shown in chapter 1, the Book of
Poetry is made up largely of poems composed in tetrasyllabic lines. A
tetrasyllabic line ...
Jie Cui, Zong-Qi Cai, 2013
2
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology
The tetrasyllabic and trisyllabic segments of all four lines are merged to form
declarative statements. Lines 5–7 are simple subject + predicate lines, but the
last line is a complex twin subject + predicate. In lines 5 and 6, the tetrasyllabic ...
3
A Grammar of Prinmi: Based on the Central Dialect of ...
All Prinmi tetrasyllabic words are generated through compounding. Quite often,
these compounds are modeled on a pattern which involves the repetition of a
particular component (cf. §5.4.5). However, suprasegmentals do not form part of
a ...
4
In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism ...
His De controversia mensium has no elisions and a high percentage of final
tetrasyllabic patterns (11.6 per cent). Lines in this group that are not redeemed by
a preceding monosyllable constitute 1 .9 per cent of those in the sample.
5
Written at Imperial Command: Panegyric Poetry in Early ...
He chose the tetrasyllabic form for the present piece most likely because he felt it
was more appropriate for a poem addressed to an imperial patron at a state
banquet.49 During the Western Jin there was a revival of tetrasyllabic poetry.50 ...
6
Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang Through Han (1250 ...
Like the hymns during the last century of the Western Zhou, inscriptions were
more regularly rhymed, more strict in their tetrasyllabic meter, more uniform in
their calligraphy and visual arrangement, and more formulaic and intertextual in
their ...
John Lagerwey, Marc Kalinowski, 2008
7
Analyzing Sound Patterns: An Introduction to Phonology
First, we can verify thecooccurrence restrictions internallywithin Kikuyu. We
mentioned earlier that Kikuyu has trisyllabic and tetrasyllabic verb roots, even
though they are much rarer statistically. If the cooccurrence restrictions identified
in bi ...
8
Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts
[979] Some rhythms are composite, others incomposite, and still Incomposite
measures consist of only one kind of foot, as in the case of the tetrasyllabic feet.
Mixed measures are those that are resolved sometimes into quantities (numeri)
and ...
William Harris Stahl, Richard Johnson, Evan Laurie Burge, 1977
9
Critical Essays on Chinese Fiction
(IV) The second noticeable phenomenon is the high frequency in the class of
perception verbs, especially in the tetrasyllabic and the hexasyllabic sentences.
Equally conspicuous is the presence of vocal action verbs or speech markers.16
As ...
Winston L. Y. Yang, Curtis P. Adkins, 1980
10
A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French ...
The measures in such lines may, of course, allude to measures in regular lines,
but they should not be confused with them: while a tetrasyllabic element, for
example, in a regular alexandrine has the hemistich as its immediate metrical
referent ...
