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n. - A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember').

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  • If such a method of discriminating types be applied to the present material, then the most easily coördinated -- the most natural -- form is the dactyl; the anapæst stands...
  • With a polished iamb, trochee, dactyl, amphibrach and anapest.
  • I'd like to see a rigorous test, in which the applicant has to demonstrate full mastery of alliteration and assonance, imagery and metonymy, amphibrach and amphimacer,...
  • The amphibrach, laid out on this scheme, would coincide with the dactyl, as there are but three possible zones for foot elements: the zone of the limiting sensation...
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