Final Unstressed Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words final and/or syllables:

    “For I had expected always
    Some brightness to hold in trust,
    Some final innocence
    To save from dust;”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

    “This is the poem of the air,
    Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
    This is the secret of despair,
    Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
    Now whispered and revealed
    To wood and field.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)