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The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of syllables, and is usually two, three
A cretic (/ ˈ k r iː t ɪ k /; also Cretic, amphimacer / æ m ˈ f ɪ m ə s ər / and sometimes paeon diagyios) [1] is a metrical foot containing three syllables: long, short, long (– ᴗ –). In Greek poetry, lines made entirely of cretic feet are less common than other metres. An example is Alcman 58. [2]
The head of the foot constituent, i.e. the stressed syllable, is indicated with a vertical line. A bracketed grid representation of an iamb. The x ' s in the lower grid are syllables, the x in the upper grid indicates the position of the stressed syllable. In accentual-syllabic verse and in modern linguistics an iamb is a foot that has the ...
Trochaic tetrameter in Macbeth. In poetic metre, a trochee (/ ˈ t r oʊ k iː /) is a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, in qualitative meter, as found in English, and in modern linguistics; or in quantitative meter, as found in Latin and Ancient Greek, a heavy syllable followed by a light one (also described as a long syllable followed by a short ...
It consists of three long syllables. [1] Examples of Latin words constituting molossi are audiri, cantabant, virtutem . In English poetry, syllables are usually categorized as being either stressed or unstressed, rather than long or short, and the unambiguous molossus rarely appears, as it is too easily interpreted as two feet (and thus a ...
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The name tribrachys is first recorded in the Roman writer Quintilian (1st century AD). According to Quintilian, an alternative name for a tribrach was a "trochee": "Three short syllables make a trochaeus, but those who give the name trochaeus to the choraeus prefer to call it a tribrachys.") [3] Quintilian himself referred to it as a trochaeus.
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