eight-syllabic

Updated: May 26, 2025

By substituting the slow and verbose pentameter of what is called the classic school of English poetry for the remarkably forth-right and simple eight-syllabic measure of the original, the translator has contrived to lose almost wholly that homely flavor of the old poet, which Goethe carefully preserved.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860