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An iamb has an unaccented and accented syllable.

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A foot having one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable is called a what?

dactyl


What is an amphimacer?

An amphimacer is a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable between two accented syllables.


What is amphimacer?

An amphimacer is a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable between two accented syllables.


The name for the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse-usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables?

The basic unit used in the measurement of verse is called a foot. A foot typically contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables, establishing the rhythm and structure of a poetic line. Examples of common feet include iambic (unstressed, stressed) and trochaic (stressed, unstressed).


What is an antibacchius?

An antibacchius is a variety of metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable.


how is a metrical foot having one accented or long syllable followed by two unaccented or short syllables?

That's a dactyl.


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.


What is the rhythm of sonnets called?

It is called Iambic Pentameter, a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable


What is a rhythm of a sonnet called?

It is called Iambic Pentameter, a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable


Three-syllable poetic foot?

pentameter


What the meaning of iambic?

Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot., Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus., An iambic foot; an iambus., A verse composed of iambic feet., A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.


What would five sets of two syllable pairs or ten syllables per line with vocal stress on the second syllable of each pair be known as?

That structure would be known as anapestic tetrameter, which is a poetic meter commonly used in light or humorous verse. Each line has four metrical feet, with the second syllable of each foot being accented.