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Definitions of metrical foot
Definition that contains metrical foot
  • beat (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  • measure (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  • meter (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  • metre (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  • cadence (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  • pyrrhic of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables
  • hypercatalectic (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot
  • catalectic (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
  • hypercatalectic (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot
  • catalectic (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot
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