1. Noun
A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.
2. Noun
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., ‘remember’)
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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