six-syllable

Updated: May 19, 2025

I even tried poetry. I began one note, in a six-syllable line, 'Oh, do not remember' but that associated itself with the fifth of November, and became an absurdity. After many attempts, I wrote, 'My dear Agnes. Your letter is like you, and what could I say of it that would be higher praise than that? I will come at four o'clock.

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield