( note that — is a long syllable, u a short syllable and U either one long or two shorts and X anceps syllable )

As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long.

The Homeric poems arrange words in the line so that there is an interplay between the metrical ictus — the first long syllable of each foot — and the natural, spoken accent of words.

Note that-is a long syllable, u a short syllable, and U either one long or two shorts:

The Scots language names for the month are Feberwary and Februar, the latter usually pronounced with a long " ay " in the first syllable.

The pattern ( also known as the Phalaecian ) is as follows ( using "-" for a long syllable, " u " for a short and " x " for an " anceps " or variable syllable ):

A long syllable (–) is a syllable that either has a long vowel, two or more consonants at the end ( or a long consonant ), or both.

* The last syllable of a verse may not include a long vowel.

This is always CV ( consonant onset with vowel nucleus ), such as ka, ki, etc., or V ( vowel ), such as a, i, etc., with the sole exception of the C grapheme for nasal codas usually romanised as n. This structure had some scholars label the system moraic instead of syllabic, because it requires the combination of two syllabograms to represent a CVC syllable with coda ( i. e. CVn, CVm, CVng ), a CVV syllable with complex nucleus ( i. e. multiple or expressively long vowels ), or a CCV syllable with complex onset ( i. e. including a glide, CyV, CwV ).

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

No one asks questions about the free union of the sexes in West Venice so long as the partners share the negative attitudes of the group.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

reaching agreement on projects of value to the whole community has long been one of Greater Miami's hardest tasks.

Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.

But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.

Perhaps one day He will choose you as He chose me, long ago.

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

Here, too, she talked low, quirking her head at one or another of the places, most often at Izaak's armchair which faced her across the long table.

one who is thoroughly human, who affects no dignity, and who is endowed with real ability, genuine worth, and sterling honesty -- all dedicated to secure the best interests of the country he has loved and served so long.

The Peace Corps thus can add a new dimension to America's world policy -- one for which people here and abroad have long been waiting.

Mr. Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now-famous Weider Push-Pull Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or `` pushing '' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a `` pulling '' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.

Fashion a sharp scribing point about 3/64'' '' long on one end, using Swiss pattern files.

At present it's available in one model, the fine and familiar Smith & Wesson Magnum revolver ( about $110 ), long a top-quality handgun among target arms.

In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.

( A collection of 64 essays with many pieces from the Annales — the long introduction is excellent, and contains many good references ).

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

* A subtly different and stronger condition than " containing no infinite ascending / descending chains " is " contains no arbitrarily long ascending / descending chains ( optionally, ' based at a given element ')".

Another style is a snap-off utility knife that contains a long, segmented blade that slides out from it.

It contains most of the cell's genetic material, organized as multiple long linear DNA molecules in complex with a large variety of proteins, such as histones, to form chromosomes.

It now contains more than 4, 000 dishes, such as fried chicken with Sichuan spicy sauce () and smoked pork with dried long green beans ().

It contains a number of running jokes, including Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, " Please stop: I'm bored ," in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long.

EPIC implements a form of very long instruction word ( VLIW ) architecture, in which a single instruction word contains multiple instructions.

The Babylonian Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin, contains a long discussion of the events leading to the coming of the Messiah, for example:

The video is roughly one hour long, but contains 30 minutes of singing, either by the group of children accompanying him, or by Mr. T himself.

Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, apoatropine, hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism.

The collection contains 265 chōka ( long poems ), 4, 207 tanka ( short poems ), one tanrenga ( short connecting poem ), one bussokusekika ( poems on the Buddha's footprints at Yakushi-ji in Nara ), four kanshi ( Chinese poems ), and 22 Chinese prose passages.

The Italian The Prophecies of Merlin contains long prophecies of Merlin ( mostly concerned with 13th-century Italian politics ), some by his ghost after his death.

Transcription of the ribosomal gene yields a long precursor molecule ( 45S pre-rRNA ) which still contains the ITS and ETS.

The Pacific Ocean contains several long seamount chains, formed by hotspot volcanism.

Another example of a POV shot is in the movie Doom, which contains a fairly long POV shot which resembles a head-up display in a first-person shooter video game, with the viewer watching through a character who is venturing through hallways shooting and killing aliens.

* -- Chapter III of the Dialogues contains a long anecdote about Paulinus.

In the theory of formal languages in computability theory, a pumping lemma or pumping argument states that, for a particular language to be a member of a language class, any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section, or sections, that can be removed, or repeated any number of times, with the resulting string remaining in that language.

The gene spans 20 kb, with a non-coding exon 1 and a very long first intron of 10 kb. The coding sequence contains five regions showing a high degree of conservation in vertebrates, predominantly in exons 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8, but the sequences found in invertebrates show only distant resemblance to mammalian TP53.

The high point of their symphonic prog output was Foxtrot ( 1972 ), which contains their only long suite " Supper's Ready " written as a variation of sonata form, and Selling England by the Pound ( 1973 ).

Written entirely in Hebrew, a sefer Torah contains 304, 805 letters, all of which must be duplicated precisely by a trained sofer (“ scribe ”), an effort which may take as long as approximately one and a half years.

The long title poem contains, in the words of his biographer R. F.