Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ancient prosody, a foot consisting of two short syllables; a pyrrhic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a foot of two short (unstressed-unstressed) syllables.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
Examples
“/'And YET' /is a complete 'iambus'; but 'anyet' is, like 'spirit', a dibrach u u, trocheized, however, by the 'arsis' or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second.”
“_spirit_, a dibrach u u, trocheized, however, by the _arsis_ or first accent damping, though not extinguishing, the second.”
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Prosody
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headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 173 more...
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