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PlayKey LineModern TextOriginal Text
All's Well That Ends WellAW III.vi.65syllable of your worthiness.syllable of your worthinesse.
CoriolanusCor II.i.56syllables. And though I must be content to bear withsyllables. And though I must be content to beare with
CoriolanusCor III.ii.56Your tongue, though but bastards and syllablesyour Tongue; / Though but Bastards, and Syllables
Henry VIIIH8 I.i.195.2No, not a syllable:No, not a sillable:
Henry VIIIH8 V.i.39.1One syllable against him?One syllable against him?
King LearKL II.ii.22syllable of thy addition.sillable of thy addition.
MacbethMac IV.iii.8.1Like syllable of dolour.Like Syllable of Dolour.
MacbethMac V.v.21To the last syllable of recorded time;To the last Syllable of Recorded time:
Measure for MeasureMM IV.iii.125By every syllable a faithful verity.By euery sillable a faithful veritie.
OthelloOth IV.ii.5Each syllable that breath made up between them.Each syllable that breath made vp betweene them.
PericlesPer II.v.71To any syllable that made love to you.To any sillable that made loue to you?
PericlesPer V.i.168By the syllable of what you shall deliver.by the syllable of what you shall deliuer,
The TempestTem I.ii.501.2To th' syllable.To th' syllable.
Troilus and CressidaTC V.ii.119Of every syllable that here was spoke.Of euery syllable that here was spoke:

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Glossary

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asyllable often used to make up the rhythm in a song

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Themes and Topics

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a- as a particle... seems little more than to add an extra syllable to make up the metre of a line because...
An...ed by consonants at the beginning of a syllable as in b-et s-et w-et y-et shakespe...
...ords beginning with an unstressed first syllable as in an historic occasion but the cr...
...does not apply to words where the first syllable is stressed people today do not (yet) ...
... monosyllabic or begins with a stressed syllable items examples ...
Comparison...gth of the adjective with words of one syllable taking an inflection (bigger longest) ...
...ction (bigger longest) words of three syllables or more appearing periphrastically (mo...
... most interesting) and words of two syllables sometimes going one way (happier rathe...
...ional ending even if they are only one syllable long (a most pained expression never a...
Elision...rsquo ield us initial unstressed syllable form location examples ...
...uo er soe&rsquo er etc] medial syllable form location examples ...
...halt ha&rsquo t final unstressed syllable form location examples ...
Singing...dition of a or another word as an extra syllable to satisfy the needs of the metre in a ...
Verb forms... giving the poet the option of an extra syllable a rhythmical contrast with the same ve...
French...rld world mw i iv 62 final syllable change french pronunciation ...
Abbreviations...n ‘ indicates a following stressed syllable text abbreviations ac...

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
SYLLABLEBASICsyllable n

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