Read full poem →fond of variety. Terentius I could not have told from Menander. Naso, to
my astonishment, was Nicander in disguise. Virgilius had a strong twang of
Theocritus. Martial put me much in mind of Archilochus—and Titus
Dictionary Entry
The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “twang”
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Read full poem →Nor breath of sleeping dove, nor river's flow,--
No, nor the Eolian twang of Love's own bow,
Can mingle music fit for the soft ear
Read full poem →Twang quoth the bow, and twang quoth the string,
out quicklie the shaft flue.
Read full poem →I put you in a book because a girl with pale blonde hair and an adenoidal and
entirely charming nasal twang to her voice told me about you one night. The girl
and I had been eating grapes in the twilight at the enamel kitchen table, and the