Four-syllable forms are typically very terse; appearing at the end of a history, the terseness of a zàn is made easy to read by the immediate context of the foregoing narrative.
On "Ceelo" his voice is dragged out into taffylike stretches, and on "Karate Chop" he spits in terse phrases, just one or two syllables at a time.
Keeping his feet, a feeling in his gut, Heart in his mouth, a slow bee in his bonnet, Silently groaning under God knows what, He wants to see if he can write a sonnet: Nothing spectacular, just some decent verse, Each phoneme brooded on, each syllable weighed, The diction plain, the sentence fairly terse (To please you, lovely reader, meter-made).
by Sharon Levy Keeping his feet, a feeling in his gut, Heart in his mouth, a slow bee in his bonnet, Silently groaning under God knows what, He wants to see if he can write a sonnet: Nothing spectacular, just some decent verse, Each phoneme brooded on, each syllable weighed, The diction plain, the sentence fairly terse (To please you, lovely reader, meter-made).
Terse words were exchanged.
Rather constricted and terse, yes?
Syllable by syllable, he traffics in fantasy.
