An iamb has an unaccented and accented syllable.
dactyl
An amphimacer is a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable between two accented syllables.
An amphimacer is a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable between two accented 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).
An antibacchius is a variety of metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable.
That's a dactyl.
A metrical FOOT (not a metrical set) is a pattern of accented and unaccented syllables, so false.
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
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
pentameter
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.
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.