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Metrical unit   /mˈɛtrɪkəl jˈunət/   Listen
Metrical unit

noun
1.
(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm.  Synonyms: foot, metrical foot.






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"Metrical unit" Quotes from Famous Books



... by extreme attention to variety of pause, but chiefly, as Wordsworth told Klopstock, and as Mr. Addington Symonds points out more at length, by the period, not the individual line, being made the metrical unit, "so that each line in a period shall carry its proper burden of sound, but the burden shall be differently distributed in the successive verses." Hence lines which taken singly seem almost unmetrical, in combination with their associates ...
— Life of John Milton • Richard Garnett



Words linked to "Metrical unit" :   anapest, metrics, dactyl, metre, spondee, trochee, amphibrach, beat, dibrach, iamb, metrical foot, pyrrhic, measure, iambus, meter, anapaest, prosody, cadence



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