Cassandra has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | You are like cassandra. | |
| 2. | E'en then – alas! to Trojan ears in vain – / Cassandra sang, and told in utterance plain / the coming doom. | |
| 3. | Here warlike Epytus, renowned in fight, / and valiant Rhipeus gather to our side, / and Hypanis and Dymas, matched in might, join with us, by the glimmering moon descried. / Here Mygdon's son, Coroebus, we espied, / who came to Troy, Cassandra's love to gain, / and now his troop with Priam's hosts allied; / poor youth and heedless! whom in frenzied strain / his promised bride had warned, but warned, alas! in vain. | |
| 4. | Dragged by her tresses from Minerva's fane, / Cassandra comes, the Priameian maid, / stretching to heaven her burning eyes in vain, / her eyes, for bonds her tender hands constrain. | |
| 5. | "O son, long trained in Ilian fates, he said, / this chance Cassandra, she alone, displayed. / Oft to Hesperia and Italia's reign / she called us." | |
| 6. | "Sheela, what do you think is the meaning or purpose of this universe?" "Cassandra, I think there is no meaning or purpose. Like a painting or sculpture, this universe just is." "Hmm." | |
| 7. | "Sheela, what's your religion?" "Cassandra, I'm Dharmic, swinging between Buddhism and Hinduism." | |
| 8. | "What's your religion, Cassandra?" "Sheela, I think I tend towards Animism, like Shinto or Daoism." | |
| 9. | "Cassandra, Bodhi Day is the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the historical Buddha experienced enlightenment." "The eighth of December, right, Sheela?" "Correct." | |
| 10. | "Cassandra, the fifteenth of December is Zamenhof Day!" "It's the birthday of Esperanto's creator, Doctor Zamenhof, right, Sheela?" "Correct." |