A metrical foot containing one short or unstressed syllable between two long or stressed ones
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creticsA metrical foot containing one short or unstressed syllable between two long or stressed ones
anapaestsA metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable
amphibrachsA metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) a long syllable between two short syllables
amphibrachA metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) a long syllable between two short syllables
bacchiifoot of three syllables that in quantitative meter consists of one short syllable followed by two long ones, and that in accentual meter consists of one unstressed syllable followed by two stressed ones
iambia metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (as in above)
iambsa metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (as in above)
iambusesa metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (as in above)