Antibacchius
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An antibacchius is a (rare) metrical foot used in formal poetry.
In accentual-syllabic verse
an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable
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Its opposite is a bacchius
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Example:
Blind luck is
loved more than
hard thinking.
In accentual-syllabic verse
Accentual-syllabic verse
Accentual-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-syllabic verse is highly regular and therefore easily scannable...
an antibacchius consists of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable
Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins .Syllables are often considered the phonological "building...
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Its opposite is a bacchius
Bacchius
A bacchius is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.In accentual-syllabic verse we could describe a bacchius as a foot that goes like this:Example:When day breaksthe fish biteat small flies....
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Example:
Blind luck is
loved more than
hard thinking.