sexasyllabic

English

Etymology

From sexa- +‎ syllabic.

Adjective

sexasyllabic (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of sexisyllabic
   • 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:

     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.’

   • 1914, M[orilla] M[aria] Norton, Builders of a Nation: A Series of Biographical Sketches, Manila, page 65:

     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.

   • 1974, Camille Naish, Dual Structures in the Poetry and Prose of Jean Genet: A Genetic Approach, page 52:

     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 […]

   • 1979, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Chinese Language Teachers Association, page 13:

     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.

   • 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:

     This innovative approach is evident in his experiments in the seldom-used sexasyllabic quatrain.

   • 2007, Stuart H. Sargent, The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125): Genres, Contexts, and Creativity, Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 475:

     (Remarks on sexametric quatrains—with comments on the origin, flourishing, and withering of the sexasyllabic line).