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A metrical foot is a term used in analyzing lines of poetry, related to stressed and unstressed syllables (sometimes called long and short, or strong and weak, syllables).
If you read a line such as:
"I think that I shall never see,"
you hear 8 syllables, with unstressed and stressed syllables alternating. This is called iambic; each foot of iambic poetry is an unstressed syllable (such as "I") followed by a stressed one (such as "think"). This line has four iambic feet. Note that a foot may be one word, two words, or parts of two words. In this case, the word "never" is split between two feet.
/I think/ that I/ shall ne/ver see
Besides iambic, there are also:
trochaic: stressed plus unstressed
anapestic: two unstressed plus one stressed
dactylic: one stressed plus two unstressed
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∙ 13y ago
Daisey Mae
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∙ 6y agoThe two words "metric foot," which sounds like a confusion of the English and metric system of distance measurement, form a term for a unit of rhythm and length in a line of verse in a poem. "Meter" means measurement of the line length. "Foot" is the unit of such measurement, but we are not talk about twelve inches in this case. In ancient Greece, the chorus members in a drama, who chanted poetry, danced to the rhythm of the poetry they recited with their feet; hence, the tradition of using "feet" as a unit of measuring poetry (a metric unit). There are different types of feet. In English, these feet are based on patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. The most common metric foot in English is the iamb, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The most common line in formal poetry is iambic pentameter, five iambs long, five stresses, ten syllables: "The plowman homeward plods his weary way"--Thomas Gray,"Elegy on a Country Churchyard." Research the term "prosody" and the phrase "meter in poetry" for more information.
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∙ 12y agoNo. There is nothing random about meter: it is very particular.
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∙ 6y agoiamb
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∙ 10y agoTrochee
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What is the metrical foot of three short syllables?
The metrical foot of three short syllables is -r-b-a--
What is the least common metrical foot?
The spondee, with its two long stressed syllables, is the least common metrical foot in the English language.
What is a group of syllables forming a metrical unit called?
A metrical unit having two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable is an anapaest. The word 'cigarette' is an example of an anapaest. The word 'anapaest', however, is not an anapaest. It is a dactyl. And the word 'dactyl' is a trochee (as is the word 'trochee').
What type of metrical foot consist of an unstressed syllable directly followed by a stressed syllable?
The iamb.
What type of metrical foot consists of unstressed syllables directly followed by a stressed syllable?
anapest
WHAT IS AN IAMB AN EXAMPLE OF?
metrical foot
Which gives an example of a type of metrical foot?
iamb :)
What is the metrical foot of three short syllables?
The metrical foot of three short syllables is -r-b-a--
What is the least common metrical foot?
The spondee, with its two long stressed syllables, is the least common metrical foot in the English language.
What is a trope?
A trope is a kind of metrical foot.
Why is the metrical unit a foot Why not a hit for example?
it used to be the king of England's foot, so it kept changing and England adopted the metric system and we tok 1 inches
A metrical set is a pattern of accented and unaccented syllables?
A metrical FOOT (not a metrical set) is a pattern of accented and unaccented syllables, so false.
A group of syllables marked off as a metrical unit?
A "foot" is a group of symbols marked off as a metrical unit, in poetry.
What is a spondeee?
A spondee is a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two stressed syllables. It is used for emphasis or to create a more deliberate and impactful rhythm in a poem.
What is a metrical unit represented by stressed and unstressed syllables?
A foot.
Metrical tales example?
Examples of metrical tales are stories like Paradise Lost, The Emigrants, and the Lady of Shallot. A metrical tale is typically a first person narrative and classified as a type of poem.
In poetry what metrical foot consist of one stessed and one unstressed?
An iambic foot consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. It is the most common metrical foot in English poetry.
