the longest word…

…could never be day. No in the Sonnets we are looking at a writer with an inventive vocabulary. A word as we learned can be anywhere from 1-5 syllables long. If you’re not sure of what a syllable is, bol-locks, that’s two. And interesting because where is the divide between the two?

But let’s move on to 4 words somewhat longer…

here follows a list of 5-syllable words:

determination (count the syllables, go on use your fingers and count) See Sonnet 13

insufficiency (same thing as above right)? See Sonnet 150 or previous post

effectually (now try this one and keep an open mind) See Sonnet 113

preposterously (they are slippery these words) See Sonnet 109

So the last two are shape shifters.