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feminine ending
b. Prosody and Music. Of the ending of a verse, phrase, etc.: having the final syllable or note unaccented, esp. in feminine ending; (of a verse, phrase, rhythm, etc.) characterized by such an ending. Cf. feminine rhyme n. at Compounds 1.
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1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike (new ed.) sig. H5 Two feminine numbers (or Trochies, if so you wil call them).
1657 J. D. in J. Poole Eng. Parnassus Pref. sig. a 6v To avoid feminine rimes, such as charity and parity.
1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 9. 68 The lyric will be preferred, for its fire and irregularity; unless, perhaps, the feminine verse, which consists of thirteen syllables, be judged more favourable to female volubility.
1815 J. Black tr. A. W. Schlegel Course Lect. Dramatic Art I. viii. 314 This verse..is greatly inferior to the English and German rhymeless iambic, from its uniform feminine termination.
1833 J. Montgomery Lect. Poetry & Gen. Lit. iv. 149 French metre..requires certain reciprocities in rhyming (the alternation of what are called masculine and feminine endings).
1883 Monthly Musical Rec. Dec. 276/2 A feminine rhythm is one which terminates on an unaccented part of the bar—or, rather, on a part of the bar less weighty than the first accented part.
1922 W. Strunk Eng. Metres ii. 24 Some lines..have one or two unstressed syllables following the last stress. Such lines are said to have a feminine ending or a double feminine ending.
1955 J. A. Westrup in H. van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman xiii. 188 The feminine endings in the melody are similar to those found in early eighteenth-century instrumental music.
1994 J. Brooks in I. Fenlon Early Music Hist. 67 The combination of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ verse in equal parts meshes well with the androgynous ideal of the Platonist atmosphere in which Ronsard worked.
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