| 单词 | metrical foot |
| 释义 | metrical foot (once / 200328 pages) n WORD FAMILY metrical foot: metrical feet USAGE EXAMPLESA metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012) Cretan, belonging to Crete: a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable between two long.—n. Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2011) When we attempt to walk with metrical feet, which are shod with winged shoes, we get on very well. Heyse, Paul, In Paradise—A Novel. Vol. I.(2010) n (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm Syn|Hypo|Hyper foot, metrical unit dactyl a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables iamb, iambusa metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables anapaest, anapesta metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables amphibracha metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') trocheea metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables spondeea metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables dibrach, pyrrhica metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
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