Monosyllables
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Spill the dish his lip said,
at the side, this one, stop
and run and stop then. Was
the day wet when he set
to it, for his cheek the step
on top. Wish to wish inside,
the slip led to this. Within
and done, a life of silt.
Spill the dish his lip said,
at the side, this one, stop
and run and stop then. Was
the day wet when he set
to it, for his cheek the step
on top. Wish to wish inside,
the slip led to this. Within
and done, a life of silt.
Benny Bunter
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Macbeth has so many monosyllables:
Out damned spot
Gall of goat and slips of yew
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
So foul and fair a day I have not seen
And nothing is but what is not.
Stars, hide your fires,
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Make thick my blood
Take my milk for gall
Come thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes
Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men
May read strange matters
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly
That but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all, here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come.
I dare do all that may become a man,
Who dares do more, is none.
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Gouts of blood
Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk
Whiles I threat, he lives;
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
That which hath made them drunk, hath made me bold
I have done the deed
Etc, etc
Out damned spot
Gall of goat and slips of yew
I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
So foul and fair a day I have not seen
And nothing is but what is not.
Stars, hide your fires,
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Make thick my blood
Take my milk for gall
Come thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes
Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men
May read strange matters
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly
That but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all, here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come.
I dare do all that may become a man,
Who dares do more, is none.
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Gouts of blood
Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk
Whiles I threat, he lives;
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
That which hath made them drunk, hath made me bold
I have done the deed
Etc, etc
Benny Bunter
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Hushed
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Puffed
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Fresh
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You know I looked up a list and they were all past tense -ed words, and I think that's cheating. It's not really one syllable is it. It's more like one and a half.
Benny Bunter
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Before spelling was standardised you'd see blest and and husht and things like that all the time - one unit of sound.
Benny Bunter
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Apparently 'squirrelled' in its American pronunciation is considered a monosyllabic word, but that's taking it too far in my opinion
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Lull
Loll
LOL!
Loll
LOL!
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Chunk
Chink
Chink
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Grot