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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
An amphibrach (/ ˈ æ m f ɪ b r æ k /) [1] is a metrical foot used in Latin and Greek prosody. It consists of a long syllable between two short syllables. [2] The word comes from the Greek ἀμφίβραχυς, amphíbrakhys, "short on both sides".
An anapaest (/ ˈ æ n ə p iː s t,-p ɛ s t /; also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one; in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.
The final foot of the second line "move slow" is another spondee replacing an iamb. John Masefield also uses spondees effectively in the line: Dirty British / coaster with a / salt-caked / smoke-stack [8] Here the last four syllables make two spondees, contrasting with the eight short syllables in the first two feet.
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 ...
A dactyl (/ ˈ d æ k t ɪ l /; Greek: δάκτυλος, dáktylos, “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. [1] In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight.
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 ...
Each foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, the opposite of an anapest, sometimes called antidactylus to reflect this fact. Example