The syllable which receives the ictus is called the thesis; the rest of the foot is called the arsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Latin Grammar] Reference

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, and peace as arsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations] Reference

Parsi New Year gives arsis another reason to get together and party.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dad29] Reference

But their special feature, which consists in placing the word accent by preference on the arsis, has not found much favour with musicians generally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

/'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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

Double click an English word for Macmillan Dictionary definition Parsi New Year gives arsis another reason to get together and party Indo-US nuclear reprocessing pact announcement likely on March 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

Camp and king's antechamber and embassage and battle made the arsis and thesis of his poetry, and his poems are a picture of Edward III's age, accurate as if a king's pageant passing flung shadow in a stream along whose bank it marched.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

Double click an English word for Macmillan Dictionary definition Parsi New Year gives arsis another reason to get together and party Actor Rakesh Paul co-hosted an awards ceremony for sailors that saw quite a few television stars walk in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

Maharashtra government claims there will be no water woes till June Parsi New Year gives arsis another reason to get together and party Actor Rakesh Paul co-hosted an awards ceremony for sailors that saw quite a few television stars walk in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference

Following the law of binary movement (the alternation of arsis and thesis), the accent is made to shorten long syllables and to lengthen short ones, in such wise that the verses, while using the external form of iambic dimeters, are purely rhythmic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

Their general theory of rhythm, according to which it consists in the succession of arsis and thesis, i. e., one part leading forward and a second part marking a point of arrival and of provisional or final rest, is substantially the same as Riemann's (see his "System der musikalischen Rhythmik und Metrik", Leipzig, 1903), and is becoming more and more accepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Mr. Fletcher Melton's interesting analysis of his verse has not, I think, established his main thesis, which like so many 'research' scholars he over-emphasizes, that the whole mystery of Donne's art lies in his use of the same sound now in arsis, now in thesis; but his examples show that this is one of many devices by which Donne secures two effects, the troubling of the regular fall of the verse stresses by the intrusion of rhetorical stress on syllables which the metrical pattern leaves unstressed, and, secondly, an echoing and re-echoing of similar sounds parallel to his fondness for resemblances in thoughts and things apparently the most remote from one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C] Reference

Not exactly the fluid arsis / thesis Gregorian chant chironomy in which I was trained, but entirely appropriate and providing an entertaining background choreography.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Farmboyz / Perge Modo] Reference

Ankylosis – The condition of an ankle after it is sprained antithesis – When two ants have an opposing thesis arsis – The condition that results from excessive sitting babesiosis – The process of seeing a lot of babes basis – A sheep who “bays” instead of “bahs”.    From Wordnik.com.  [SIS WORDS] Reference

My horse's arsis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-11] Reference