Final Unstressed Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words final and/or syllables:

    “With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
    And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
    And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for
    her.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)