Usage examples (16)

• The syllable which receives the ictus is called the thesis; the rest of the foot is called the arsis.
• While from an objective view-point, the rhythm of the two elements pulsates evenly on the same level, our valuation articulates, as it were, iambic periods, with war as thesis,...
• Parsi New Year gives arsis another reason to get together and party
• He learned something from all those years of listening to preaching -- how to time the delivery and how to use arsis and thesis in a speech.