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iamb
That's an iamb.
A "foot" is a group of symbols marked off as a metrical unit, in poetry.
A foot.
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The metrical foot of three short syllables is -r-b-a--
The iamb.
anapest
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That's an iamb.
metrical foot
The spondee, with its two long stressed syllables, is the least common metrical foot in the English language.
A trope is a kind of metrical foot.